ietf-nntp Comments on the draft

[chris (c.) lewis]

In article <199610032152.QAA21701 at academ.com>,  <sob at academ.com> wrote:
>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.

I thought we were supposed to be documenting existing practise rather
than inventing new ones.
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