ietf-nntp Response code warts

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Dec 31 12:42:10 PST 2001


greg andruk <gja at meowing.net> writes:

> I'm tasked with cleaning up an NNTP client library and noticed two cases
> that require me to shuffle around a bit more state than I'd like.  It's
> probably too late to do much about these, but mentioning them can't hurt
> too much, can it?

How do you think we should mention this?  Note in GROUP or LISTGROUP that
the response has a different meaning for the other command, or something
else?  I don't disagree, but I'm not sure the best way of dealing with
this (I don't think we can change the response codes).

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



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