ietf-nntp DEBUG command (9xx)

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Tue Jul 25 07:20:06 PDT 2000


Brian Kantor said:
> My suggestion: if a client or peer receives a debug-class message
> (9xx) it simply returns to waiting for whatever real response it
> was waiting for when the 9xx arrived.

That's what my 9xx proposal basically says.

> If I had it to do over again, I'd have suggested 0xx as is used in
> several other protocols.

Is it ? I picked 9xx as being related to x9x, but 0xx would work equally
well if there's precedent.

The real question, of course, is do we want debugging in the NNTP
standard at all ?

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