Re: News and nntp URI schemes

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:55:52 -0000, Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>  
wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:59:48 -0000, Charles Lindsey  
> <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote:

>> [2nd alternative]
>>
>>         newsURI     = "news:" ( article / group )
>>         article     = [ news-server "/" ] message-id
>>         group       = [ news-server "/" ] wildmat
>>

> There has been much discussion on the NNTP WG list about this in recent  
> days, mainly between myself and Russ Allbery. He has suggested various  
> small textual changes, which I have adopted, but more importantly he  
> likes going for the 2nd alternative (i.e. wildmats). It seems that Lynx,  
> at least, already supports something pretty close to that, and it should  
> also make Al Gilman happy. It would be useful, however, to hear of other  
> systems that will currently handle all, or most, of the examples listed  
> for the 2nd alternative.
>
> In the meantime, I intend to rewrite the text incorporating those  
> wildmats, and I shall post it here for your consideration.
>
So I have now done this, and the text is attached.

This is being sent to both the uri@w3.org and the  
ietf-nntp@lists.eyrie.org lists.
Ideally, it should be discussed on both lists (though it is uri@w3.org  
that is ultimately responsible). However, keeping discussion alive on two  
lists is known to be a hazardous enterprise, so I shall report interesting  
comments on each list to the other.

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