[ietf-nntp] Re: AUTHINFO/SASL responses

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> Think of it from the client perspective.  Using this method, it can just
> treat 281 as "authentication succeeded" and 283 as "authentication
> probably succeeded but I need to check something."

Technically, the 283 means that the client->server authentication *has* 
succeeded, and the server is sending the client some data to verify 
itself (server->client auth or "mutual auth").

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