ietf-nntp Comments on the November draft

[Charles Lindsey]

In <19991110090113.F17354 at demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:

>>      7.1.2 MODE READER

>>        MODE READER MAY be used by the client to indicate to the
>>        server that it is a news reading client.

>As opposed to what ? What is the effect of sending, or not sending, this
>command ?

I think the effect is that, without it, all you can do it relay articles
with the IHAVE command, supposing you have that permission (perhaps a few
other commands). That is certainly my experience the first time I tried to
connect to an INN server to read news, and didn't give that command.

What has always surprised me is that there was not a matching
	MODE RELAYER
command.

And it is not clear what "MODE" you are in if you do not give this
command.

>>      7.1.2.1 Responses
>>             200 Hello, you can post
>>             201 Hello, you can't post
>>             400 Service temporarily unavailable
>>             502 Service unavailable

>Is there any circumstance where the initial greeting is 20x but this
>command responds 400 or 502 ? Is the server required to close the
>connection after a 400 or 502 ?

No, you could always try and do some IHAVE work. But it is not a likely
scenario.

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