ietf-nntp Another message from urs@akk.org about tin

[Stan O. Barber]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:35:15AM +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> >>       200     you may (try to) do anything
> >>       201     you may not POST
> >>       202     you may not IHAVE
> >>       203     you may not do EITHER
> So how would current clients be affected if servers suddenly started doing
> that?

tin threas all greetingcodes != 200 or 201 as an error:

/* [open.c:nntp_open()] */
      case OK_CANPOST:
#  ifndef NO_POSTING
         can_post = TRUE;
#  endif /* !NO_POSTING */
         break;

      case OK_NOPOST:
         can_post = FALSE;
         break;

      default:
         if (ret < 0) {
            error_message (_(txt_failed_to_connect_to_server), nntp_server);
         } else {
            error_message (line);
         }

urs