kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) (06/04/91)
In article <309@norisc.UUCP> iain@norisc.UUCP (Iain Lea) writes: # Also will the Archive-name: field in some netnews groups # (ie. comp.sources.misc) ever be supported by the nntp protocol. In article <5819@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes: > NNTP already provides a mechanism to retrienve arbitrary parts of a header > whether they are official or not. This feature will continue into NNTP 1.6. > Generally, the Archive-name: is not in the header and therefore can't > be retreived with NNTP. Should Archive-name become part of the header, this > will work. Archive-name:, Submitted-by:, Posting-number as well as the others are considered an "auxiliary" header and are not a part of the "official" RFC 1036 article header. It is unlikely that the Archive-name: and any other of the comp.sources.* auxiliary headers will ever become part of the official header unless an rfc or two are updated and the moderators change the software they use to post with. If you wish to archive sources via NNTP then you will need to write or get software that supports it. The rkive package posted to comp.sources.misc supports NNTP archiving on a per newsgroup basis. -Kent+ -- Kent Landfield INTERNET: kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM Sterling Software, IMD UUCP: uunet!sparky!kent Phone: (402) 291-8300 FAX: (402) 291-4362 Please send comp.sources.misc-related mail to kent@uunet.uu.net.