ietf-nntp Response codes - debugging, authentication & unknown

Charles Lindsey chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk
Thu Aug 10 03:32:21 PDT 2000


In <14737.9548.764177.45566 at gargle.gargle.HOWL> Lee Kindness <lkindness at csl.co.uk> writes:


>       The exact response codes that can be returned in response to a
>       given command are detailed in the description of the keyword
>!      that is the first part of the command. If a client receives
>!      an unexpected response code from a command then it MUST make
                                                           ^^^^
							   SHOULD
>!      a 'best guess' on how to treat the response - typically the
>!      first digit is used for this purpose.

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