ietf-nntp Update to base spec posted

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Tue Mar 6 09:06:09 PST 2001


"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote:
> 
> Stan O. Barber said:
> > You can get a copy of base-13 from
> > ftp://ftp.academ.com/pub/nntp/ietf/nntpext.txt.
> >
> > This version incorporates the following changes:
> >
> > Section 4 has been changed in the manner suggested by Clive Feather.
> > Section 7 has been changed in a manner suggested by Clieve Feather and Russ
> > Alberry.
> > Section 8 has been changed in a manner similar to that suggested by Clive
> > Feather.
> > Section 10 has been changed in the manner suggested by Clive Feather.
> > "UTC" token has been deleted from NEWNEWS and NEWGROUPS. DATE, NEWNEWS and
> > NEWGROUPS use of
> > Coordinated Universal Time has been clarified.
> 
> A few nit-picks:
> 
> In 4.1 you need to delete the paragraph beginning "Each recognized command
> MUST return 501" as the important part was merged into the previous
> paragraph.

Ok.

> 
> In 7.1.1, the first example needs the first [C] line removing, and the
> second example needs it replacing by the new "[Initial TCP ...]" line.

Ok.
> 
> In 10.1.1, you've omitted the line "The server then closes the connection".

"The server then closes the connection" is not a response. Responses start with
a code.

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