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

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> Andrew - Supernews wrote:

>> You can make a good argument that even in that list, HEAD, STAT and
>> LIST ACTIVE don't belong. In fact a majority of transit-only
>> implementations don't implement at least one of those.

> This list is based on the fact that they are all listed as "general"
> commands in the current pre4 draft.  I make no claims as to their
> correctness, but I recall discussion that they are used by some feeding
> clients/servers.

HEAD and STAT are pretty much only for debugging purposes; they don't
actually have a protocol purpose between transit servers.  LIST ACTIVE is
used sometimes to build feed patterns, but Andrew's correct that some
transit servers have no concept of it.

Not really sure what to do about this.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>