ietf-nntp OVER and HDR parameter comments

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylpto39ulq.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>   A server MAY only allow HDR commands for a limited set of headers and
>   metadata items (such as those present in the overview database).  If
>   so, it MUST respond with a 503 response to attempts to request other
>   headers, rather than returning erroneous results such as a successful
>   empty response.

>In section 10.6.1.2.

Hmmmmm! It would be useful to mention it as one of the responses in
10.6.1.1, even though it is a generic response.

Perhaps there should be a policy that generic responses are to be included
amongst the particular responses for the command in all cases where there
is a specific and identified reason for returning them, as in this case
(i.e. it is not really a generic reason).

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