[NNTP] Re: [ietf-nntp] MODE READER and formal specification of
extensions
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Thu Nov 4 21:19:40 PST 2004
Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> For example, in nntp-24 it states "The LISTGROUP command can only be
> used after MODE READER command". This seems to *require* the client to
> issue MODE READER, even if not required by the server, before it can use
> LISTGROUP. I don't *think* this is the intent of the statement - I
> think we're just trying to tag it as a "reader" command. Perhaps the
> statement should say something along the lines of:
> "On servers that require the use of the MODE READER command, the
> LISTGROUP command can only be used after the MODE READER command."
This sounds like good wording to me.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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