ietf-nntp poll

Charles Lindsey chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk
Thu Dec 13 08:59:00 PST 2001


In <20011212152036.X51208 at demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:

>My understanding is that most servers accept streaming in most situations,
>and many clients assume that streaming works. As such, forbidding it by
>default (or even by a new status code) will be an incompatible change.

Well you could always declare it as an extension. Then clients could ask,
during the greeting, whether it was supported and act accordingly. Or they
could not ask and take a chance; likely it would still work.

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