brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) (05/01/91)
I suggest that rather than all the option negotiation that I'd originally proposed for the news transfer stuff in the revised NNTP spec, that instead we have some new commands that a client can send a server. + a command to find out how big a batch the server can accomodate at any particular time < BSIZE > 2xx 65535 is my maximum batchsize + a command to ship a bunch of article IDs and let the server select only those that it wants to receive < IBATCH > 3xx ship me a bunch of message ids < --- < --- (a list of article IDs the client can offer to the server < --- < . > 3yy of those, I want the following > --- > --- > . + a command to actually ship the batch < BATCH > 3xx ship 'em < (a bunch of articles in RFC1036 batches) < . > 2xx got that ok, will post them eventually Some options would remain, such as selecting image mode for the textual transfers, and compression. I think this simplifies things quite a bit, eh? - Brian