ietf-nntp Maximum command length

[Charles Lindsey]

In <20011229153758.H93705 at demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:


>Charles Lindsey said:
>> 
>> Would this WG be agreeable to a service extension
>> 	CMDLENGTH <parameter>
>> where <parameter> is either a number (the maximum length allowed) or the
>> token "unlimited"? The default is, of course, 512 octets, and the limit on
>> the length of the parameters is <parameter>-15.

>I don't see the need, since it isn't hard to split up the NEWNEWS into
>several.

But irksome if you have to do it by hand.

>On the gripping hand, it should be a separate document and not part of this
>one.

I think the change is so small that noone will want to write a separate
document to do just that, and it is not an obvious "add-on" to any other
proposal that might come forward.

If we think it useful (and I hear no support thus far), then we may as
well do it NOW (it seems pretty harmless). Otherwise, forget it.

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