Re: Bugs in handling nntp://news.gmane.org

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

f95-msv@f.kth.se (Mårten Svantesson) writes:

> Gnus doesn't handle urls of the form nntp://news.gmane.org in
> articles. Whether the message is in text/plain or text/html (and thus
> handled by w3) doesn't matter, though the errors are different.
> Looking at RFC 1738 the URL seems correct, but if you on the other
> hand look at the - expired - draft-gilman-news-url-02
> <http://www.landfield.com/usefor/drafts/draft-gilman-news-url-02.txt>
> nntp and news urls should be parsed the same. 

I think it might make sense to treat nntp: and news: differently (as
per the older specs).  Any opinions?

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