ietf-nntp Generic responses

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Dec 4 11:30:51 PST 2001


Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> A while ago I wrote the following proposal. I thought this had
> consensus.

> An alternative approach to generic responses would be to add a "generic"
> line to each section, saying which generic codes are allowed. This would
> also make it clear which commands are optional and which are mandatory.

I support this proposal, although looking at the current version of the
draft it appears that this has been done to some degree in a different
way.  But I think this is a good way of presenting that information.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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