ietf-nntp new draft of base document available

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> Well, I can see three possibilities:

> (1) MODE READER is effectively a no-op (particularly at the start of a
> newsreading session; I note your other email about resetting things). In
> that case, the first sentence needs to go.

> (2) MODE READER or some implementation-specific alternative (such as
> MODE NEWSPEER) is required before many common servers will provide
> service.  In this case we should be documenting this fact.

> (3) MODE READER is recommended if many ARTICLE/HEAD/BODY commands are
> going to be issued, because many servers will optimise themselves
> accordingly.  In which case we should say so.

Since the purpose of this RFC is to document existing practice (otherwise,
it's *never* going to get out the door, whereas right now I think we could
make a concerted push and get it out the door without much more delay), I
think (2) is the only reasonable choice.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>