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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news compatibility with NNTP
Message-ID: <6725@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 19 Aug 89 22:37:18 GMT
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In article <1909@ucsd.EDU> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:

>Now wait a minute:  You don't have to modify NNTP to work with C news.
>You might have to modify the particular implementation that you have,
>but you don't have to modify the PROTOCOL, dammit.

Calm down.  I thought it was fairly obvious that we were talking
about news implementation and not NNTP protocol.  My kvetch was about
case sensitivity of message-ids.  It was made in that context.  

Nowhere did I mention NNTP protocol let alone suggest that NNTP
protocol should change.  However, now that you mention protocol,
the message-id IS part of the news protocol, and I dearly wish
there were some unanimity wrt case sensitivity ...

Apologies if my use of capital letters implied something more to you;
I did not intend that to happen.

Fletcher