ietf-nntp AUTHINFO SASL protocol choices

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Apr 4 12:31:48 PST 2002


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

> But if their upper bound is to be over that reasonable amount, then we
> shall have to define (and people will have to implement) a mechanism
> with an 'escape' to multiline, even though it is most unlikely it would
> ever be needed in real life.

If the upper bound is over a reasonable amount, we should just always use
multiline.  Let's please not provide two ways of doing something when we
don't need to.

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



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