Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: Newsgroup descriptions over NNTP? Message-ID: <109@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 13 Apr 89 14:08:42 GMT References: Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Distribution: news Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 15 In-reply-to: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) In article , flee@shire (Felix Lee) writes: > >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 . . . Excellent idea. I have proposed to Larry several reasons twhy rn should use this, especially to prevent people form posting stuff to the wrong newsgroups, or for those looking for a newsgroup that is appropriate. -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!steinmetz!barnett,