ietf-nntp Response codes - debugging, authentication & unknown
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Fri Aug 11 01:55:45 PDT 2000
Andrew Gierth said:
> This has the same problem that X-commands and X-headers have; what
> happens is that someone invents an extension, implements it, then
> others also implement it, and lo and behold we find that it can't be
> standardised. This is what happened with authentication,
> XOVER/XHDR/XPAT, etc.
>
> We should add a warning along these lines to any such wording:
Fine with me.
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