Re: ABNF nits
"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: >"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]> writes: >> I also note that there is a "Restriction on usage" header in the RFC >> 4288 template, and it might be useful to say that news-groupinfo and >> news-checkgroups were only for use in newsgroup control messages (in >> which case the "Intended usage" header should say "LINITED USE"). >I don't see a need to limit either to newsgroup control messages. They're >both outside of that context (news-checkgroups more so, >admittedly). However, I don't feel strongly about news-groupinfo; if >people think it's sufficiently weird that it doesn't make any sense to use >it outside of control messages, I'm willing to make that change. I feel >more strongly that news-checkgroups is appropriate in a much wider variety >of situations. Yes, I take your point about possible use of news-checkgroups in regularly posted articles in *.annouce groups. It's no big deal, because the introductory text already present indicates that control messages are the primary intended use for both of these. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5