ietf-nntp Extensions and MODE READER
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Wed Oct 8 01:13:11 PDT 2003
Our extensions in section 8 introduce five new commands:
HDR
LIST HEADERS
LIST OVERVIEW.FMT
LISTGROUP
OVER
How should these interact with MODE READER on implementations where the
latter actually does something? This isn't an area I'm familiar with.
Possibilities:
(1) We say that MODE READER is an abomination and these MUST work whether
or not it's used.
(2) We allocate each of them to one of the groups:
- requires MODE READER first
- forbidden after MODE READER
- must work at all times.
At present, I have (2) with all five requiring MODE READER first. This
seems a non-brainer for LISTGROUP, by analogy with GROUP, but I'm much less
sure about the others, particularly the LIST variants. Can someone with a
relevant implementation please comment?
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