ietf-nntp DEBUG command (9xx)

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Charles Lindsey said:
>> 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".

No, I meant "the latter".

> Clients SHOULD recognise x9x as something to be
> ignored.

But we have no wording in the present draft to say that. On the contrary,
one command has 29x responses which cannot be ignored.

> Agreed you may have trouble if they don't. So why not use 9XX for
> debugging?

If we need debugging responses. I'm not clear that we do.

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