ietf-nntp MODE READER

[Andrew Gierth]

>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

 > Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
 >> Do any common servers apart from innd actually use the command ?

 Russ> Does Diablo?  I'm not aware of any other server that has
 Russ> multiple modes, beyond the streaming stuff, but I seem to
 Russ> recall that Diablo might.

Diablo uses it similarly to INN, to engage normal reader mode on a
connection that is otherwise in feeder mode. Unlike INN, though, this
doesn't involve handing off to another process, it only changes some
per-connection flags.

-- 
Andrew.