nntp-extensions feedback on draft-ietf-nntpext-dynfeed-00.txt

[Jeff Garzik]

Michael Richardson wrote:
> >Implementations MUST treat the restrictions requested by DONTSEND
> >commands, as well as the response to the LIST DONTSEND command, as
> >valid only for the duration of the NNTP session in which they were
> >issued.
> 
>   That seems useless to me.
>   a) I think we have some NNTP authentication stuff available.
>   b) the truly paranoid can run NNTP over SSL (if you have enough
> 	CPU)
>   c) we can use some kind of one-time password for the authentication


hmmm, the reasons you give don't seem to have anything to do with the
reasoning behind the "valid only for the duration"..

This is an issue about whether the server implementation (on the
upstream server) should maintain state with regards to the DONTSEND
commands.  ie.  "Should I permanently update my newsfeeds file when a
DONTSEND is received, or should I just make DONTSEND changes to the
current session?"

And I think the latter is the smarter way to go.
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