ietf-nntp DEBUG command

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Chin Chee-Kai said:
> On another related note, there is one other aspect which RFC977
> and draft-10 don't seem to address, which is the required response
> of clients when they received unexpected x9x messages (such as
> "290", which may mean OK, but is for debugging purposes).

This is just a particular case of a general issue: what if you receive an
unexpected response.

I proposed a paragraph saying, basically, that you use the first digit to
make a best guess.

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