ietf-nntp Response from ARTICLE

[Charles Lindsey]

In <01J2NZ6OYZRU94DNXS at INNOSOFT.COM> Ned Freed <Ned.Freed at INNOSOFT.COM> writes:

>I would agree that in these cases poor choices for codes have been made. This
>is nothing new; there is at least one incorrect assignment of this sort in RFC
>821.

Actually, on looking further into it, 502 is still an odd choice for
"permission denied for requested article" even if you admit the '5xx' part
of it, since 'x0x' is supposed to be for "Connection, setup, and
miscellaneous messages". I would have expected '53x' at least.

Are we really stuck with 502 for this?

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