ietf-nntp Section 7.1 - GREETING step.

[Russell Vincent]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:54:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Basically, 201 is a meaningless reply for a server that doesn't implement
> POST; there's no reason sans extensions to allow a connection at all if
> you're not going to allow IHAVE and don't implement POST.  And 201 has a
> specific meaning that isn't useful for connecting just to exercise
> extensions either.

Actually, there is a use for it.

The newsfeeding component of Diablo is able to double as a news
spool allowing articles to be retrieved using ARTICLE/HEAD/BODY/STAT.
This component doesn't implement POST, but does allow IHAVE.
It is possible to enable read-only access to this spool and hence
not allow IHAVE. Furthermore, during a particular state (part of
expire), the server cannot accept articles via IHAVE, but can still
allow articles to be retrieved. In these states Diablo returns 201
during the greeting.

 -Russell