ietf-nntp Generic responses

Lee Kindness lkindness at csl.co.uk
Wed Dec 12 07:17:39 PST 2001


Clive D.W. Feather writes:
 > Stan O. Barber said:
 > > No, it did not. That's why it was not in there. I, for one, find it 
 > > confusing.
 > Let me start again.
 > We have 7 generic response codes:
 > [ snip ]
 > For each command in the specification, some of these are legitimate
 > responses and some are not. For example:
 > [ snip ]
 > {Question 1} Does anyone disagree ?

I agree this is a good generalisation that would imporve readability
of the specification.

 > If we agree, then the following possibilities come to mind:
 > [ snip ]
 > (3) List the valid generic responses as a summary:
 >   9.1.1.1.1 Responses
 >           211 n l h ggg  Group successfully selected (...)
 >           411            No such newsgroup
 >       plus generic responses 400, 401, 501
 > {Question 2} Which of these three arrangements is best ?

Option 3.

Regards, Lee Kindness.



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