ietf-nntp NNTP AUTH draft

[Stan O. Barber]

That would be true on a system that didn't have any transition issues to cope
with (that is a system that didn't want to support older clients).

Again, since that's not clear to you, we can fix this pretty easily, but this
not an issue that specific to the AUTH extension.

Andrew Gierth wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Stan" == Stan O Barber <sob at verio.net> writes:
> 
>  Stan> Why is that? If you code your server correctly, it can choose
>  Stan> to present 480 unless the client does a "LIST EXTENSIONS" and
>  Stan> then present a 450 after that, after all WHY should a client do
>  Stan> a "LIST EXTENSIONS" if it didn't plan to make use of the
>  Stan> extensions?
> 
> The AUTH draft specifically says that the client is not required to
> do LIST EXTENSTIONS.
> 
> --
> Andrew.