ietf-nntp Proposed new HDR text

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylpu1fe2t2.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>The list of headers HDR can be used with is potentially quite long, so I'm
>not sure LIST EXTENSIONS is the right way to document them.  I'm also not
>clear on why just trying the HDR command and seeing if it fails isn't a
>reasonable way of handling this; in other words, why would a client need
>to retrieve the list?

Well the proper way to do it would be to have a LIST HDR.FMT command
similar to the LIST OVERVIEW.FMT command.

But if you want to do it the "try it and see" way, then it would be good
to have a special return code meaning "sorry, we don't do that HDR, but
feel free to try other headers".

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