ietf-nntp LIST EXTENSION response 205 vs 215

Stan Barber sob at academ.com
Wed Feb 19 12:33:44 PST 1997


The current practices document does state that and will continue to state that.

Look for the new docs around March 1st.

> 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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