[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-02

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> FWIW, I agree with Clive on this point (regarding 436, I think the jury
> is still out on 432).  I'm all for trying to document existing practice,
> as long as existing practice isn't horribly broken.  Poor
> implementations should wither and die, not continue to exist because we
> retroactively make them compliant.

I agree with Andrew that returning deferrals to an article body is
horribly broken (dealing with it makes a mess in innfeed).  I was willing
to see it in there because servers do actually do it, but I find his
argument rather persuasive and would rather just explicitly mention the
400 response.

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