Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!fletcher 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 References: <1989Aug9.164003.20669@utzoo.uucp> <6717@dayton.UUCP> <1989Aug17.171000.23302@utzoo.uucp> <64033@uunet.UU.NET> <1989Aug18.102335.17269@utstat.uucp> <6722@cs.utexas.edu> <1909@ucsd.EDU> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 19 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