ietf-nntp Section 8
Andrew Gierth
andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk
Tue Jul 18 09:59:04 PDT 2000
>>>>> "Clive" == Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
Clive> A successful response is followed by a list of extensions,
Clive> one per line. Each line MUST begin with exactly one space
Clive> [What's the point of this ? Despite what the draft says, it
Clive> can't be to prevent confusion with the terminating dot as
Clive> that's what dot stuffing is for. Is it too late to change it
Clive> ?]
I'd like to see the space dropped, but there are existing clients
(Netscape, I believe) that issue this command, and I don't know if
they would get confused. I _do_ know that using more than one space
causes no serious problems, but I don't know if it would prevent the
recognition of a known option (Netscape is looking for the SEARCH
extension).
--
Andrew.
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