ietf-nntp DEBUG command (9xx)

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Mon Aug 7 14:50:30 PDT 2000


Charles Lindsey wrote:
> 
> In <20000805230535.C81132 at demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:
> 
> >I see no difference between a 291 response and a 246 response here; what
> >would you do if you saw the latter ?
> 
> ITYM "the former". Clients SHOULD recognise x9x as something to be
> ignored. Agreed you may have trouble if they don't. So why not use 9XX for
> debugging?

Sure. Write up an extenstion that defines the 9XX codes be used that way if you
like.

It does not belong in the base draft.
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