ietf-nntp Timeout in a POST (or IHAVE) command

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> There is the related problem of the server wanting to stop the transfer
> of an article from a client (having seen the first 15MB, and there being
> no indication that there is a further 15MB to follow ...). Currently,
> the only solution is to drop the connection, which is a bit drastic.

Why do you feel so?  It seems like an entirely reasonable approach to me.

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