[NNTP] [2501] Reader commands in transit servers and vice-versa

[Charles Lindsey]

In <41B0B555.5020101 at oceana.com> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

>I really don't see a problem with READER and TRANSIT, since the are just 
>protocol tokens which only the client software (and developer) ever sees.

>I suppose I could live with something like USER" and TRANSIT or USER and 
>PEER or USER_MODE and PEER_MODE, but I really don't see the point. 
>Everyone already knows that POST is a reader (user-agent) command and 
>READER gives us symmetry with MODE READER.

I think I would prefer USER and PEER. Those are the terms that the world
out there uses.

-- 
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: chl at clerew.man.ac.uk      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