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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Newsgroup descriptions over NNTP?
Message-ID: <FLEE.89Apr7195131@shire.cs.psu.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 89 23:51:31 GMT
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How about an extension to the NNTP protocol that lets you fetch the
information in the (NEWSLIB)/newsgroups file?  Newsgroup descriptions
are useful, really they are.  Just because newsreaders like "rn" don't
use that information . . .

Some sort of match-pattern list-newsgroups would be nice.  psuvax1's
active/newsgroup files are currently 19k/27k bytes (616 newsgroups).
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Felix Lee	flee@shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!shire!flee