Re: yEnc support in Gnus?

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

* Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>  on Wed, 03 Jul 2002
| "Broadcast" is not to be seen in the strict and network-layer oriented
| sense. NNTP is being (ab)used for binary distribution, it carries data
| regardless of whether this data has been requested or not.

Not true.  Every news server requests the contents of a list of newsgroups
from its upstream server(s).  For example, back when I was a news admin, my
site wanted all binaries groups except the pictures groups.  We wanted to
avoid possible copyright problems with the picture groups.  My newsfeeds
file had "alt.*" and "!alt.binaries.pictures.*", requests to the upstream
servers to send us everything in alt, including the binaries groups, but
excluding the pictures groups.

By default, a feed in a newsfeeds file requests no news at all.  The news
server admin must fill in a list of groups that his server will carry, even
if that list is simply "*".  Additionally, the news server admin must
manually perform newgroup commands, or configure his server to automaticaly
perform them or ignore them entirely.

You may want to argue implicit vs. explicit, but there is no such thing as
unrequested news.

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