ietf-nntp OVER extension

[greg andruk]

[oops, replied to the wrong place.  Sorry.]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 05:44:32PM +0000, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> > But if (5) is agreed, then the whole LIST OVERVIEW.FMT command becomes
> > redundant, as Greg Andruk has said.
> 
> Not so. It allows you to determine what headers will be provided and,
> therefore, which ones are missing from any given response. Without it, how
> can you tell whether X-Wombat is included in the overview (and your probings
> so far have been unlucky) or not ?

All extension headers include the name, so you know for each and every line
of output what headers are included or omitted.  Geoff Collyer's
NOV documentation made this very clear:

       There  is  some confusion about whether the order and con-
       tent of the first eight fields is a local decision,  or  a
       standard.   It's  intended to be a standard; please do not
       mess with it.  All, repeat all, local variations should be
       done  by  adding the optional fields at the end, and those
       fields must include their header keywords (and colons)  to
       make them self-identifying.

-- 
Meow