ietf-nntp Implementation-specific language in IHAVE description

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Jul 5 00:28:48 PDT 2001


The description of the IHAVE command currently has:

    It SHOULD NOT be used when the client is a personal news reading
    program.  In particular, this function will invoke the server's news
    posting program with the appropriate settings (flags, options, etc.) 
    to indicate that the forthcoming article is being forwarded from
    another host.

The discussion of "the server's news posting program" is specific to a
particular implementation technique and therefore may be confusing.
Suggested replacement wording:

    It SHOULD NOT be used when the client is a personal news reading
    program, since this command indicates that the forthcoming article
    has already been posted at another site and is being forwarded from
    another host.

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



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