ietf-nntp DEBUG command (9xx)

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylsnsfoclz.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> (2) x8x codes are for authentication and x9x codes for private use. The
>> former roughly matches current practice and the latter is harmless
>> (nobody has reported seeing x9x codes used in practice). Don't talk
>> about debugging codes at all.

>This is my strong preference.

An alternative, not mentioned so far, is to drop the x9x codes from the
draft entirely. If they remain, then there must be wording either that
they must be ignored, or that they should not be used except between
consenting parties (and, since consenting parties can do anything they
like, then that is really no different from excluding them from the draft
entirely).

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