ietf-nntp Section 7.1 - GREETING step.

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Mon Jul 24 11:27:06 PDT 2000


David Riley wrote:
> 
> I think we should consider present the 200 greeting code if IHAVE transit
> ability is available on the server to the client.  The response from MODE
> READER indicates specifically whether the user may use POST or not.  I
> would suggest the text be changed to something along the lines of.

I am not sure if this is consistent with RFC977. Comments from others on this
are welcome.


> Also, I can't seem to find older mailing list archives -- why was the 502
> on permission denied, changed to a 504?  That does not seem to mimic
> existing practice.

See http://www.academ.com/academ/nntp/ietf/index.html for the archives.

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