ietf-nntp new draft of base document available

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Wed Jul 19 00:41:29 PDT 2000


Russ Allbery said:
>> One more thing, we could make this command "RESET STATE" of the server
>> so that the group and article pointers are reset to "undefined". I
>> believe that is consistent with what INN does.
> 
> Nope.  MODE READER, after the first time it's sent, is a no-op apart from
> printing the greeting banner again:

> But I'd
> tend away from it; I don't see a need to overload the command in that way.

Agreed.

In fact, I don't see a particular need for that functionality at all.

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