ietf-nntp MODE READER proposed text

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylr92bov6e.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>    Servers are encouraged to not require this command even though
>    clients SHOULD send it when appropriate.  It is present to support
>    some news architectures which switch between modes based on whether
>    a given connection is a peer-to-peer connection with another server
>    or a news reading client.  It is preferrable instead to accept
>    peer-to-peer connections on a different port and to assume that
>    all connections to the standard NNTP port are from news reading
>    clients.

If we are going to mention the possibility of an alternative port, then we
should allocate a specific port number for that purpose (after getting
proper clearance from IANA, of course).

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