nntp-extensions Renaming the SEARCH extensions

[Brian Hernacki]

Nat Ballou wrote:
> 
> > From: Brian Hernacki <bhern at netscape.com>
> > Subject: Re: nntp-extensions Renaming the SEARCH extensions
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >If we leave it as SEARCH we're going to see a lot of breakage. It's
> >seems a pretty simple thing to do to solve interoperability problems and
> >I can't see any downside to it.
> 
> I guess this is the part I don't understand.  What clients will
> break?  Are they only Netscape clients?

Hopefully it's only Netscape. But I had a couple of developers contact
me several months ago to get the specs for how we implementing search at
the time so it could be more. Either way though, you have several
hundred servers (at least) out there and many thousands of clients who
speak a different SEARCH than what the spec is doing. 

I know protocol-purity says "let 'em break" but I can't see doing that
when the solution is so simple and easy. 

--brian
Opinions are mine, not Netscape's