ietf-nntp LIST EXTENSION response 205 vs 215

Ben Polk bpolk at netscape.com
Wed Feb 19 12:03:44 PST 1997


At 02:19 PM 2/19/97 -0500, der Mouse wrote:
>>> I would prefer 205.  If all the other LIST subcommands return 215,
>>> presumably this is because they all refer to newsgroup selection.
>
>> Ah, no, that would be false.
>
>> LIST OVERVIEW.FMT, LIST DISTRIBUTIONS, and the new LIST MOTD have
>> nothing to do with "newsgroup selection", which was my point.
>
>Then I would like to see them too returning something other than 215.

According to the charter of the group, we are going to produce a 
document that describes current practice, plus has the LIST 
EXTENSIONS mechanism in it.  The current practice is that the 
above commands return 215, so that is what the current practices 
document should state.





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