ietf-nntp Comments on the draft

[Stan Barber]

The middle number 5 was chosen to avoid overloading the middle numer 8, which
is reserved for local extension use.

We could reverse and choose 8 to be for authentication and use 5 for local
extension use. However, having 8 overloaded is a bad idea.

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