ietf-nntp Concerning Streaming

[greg andruk]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:27:22AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> If POST isn't streamable, then IHAVE shouldn't be streamable, yes?

Yes. No.  Maybe.

> I mean, either they're both streamable or neither of them are streamable;
> they both have the same issue, don't they?

If the reason for POST being in there is the disruption caused by the
spawn() function in NNTP 1.5.x, then it would also apply to IHAVE if
batching hasn't been compiled in -- but you only need that for B News which
I hope we can consider dead for this purpose.

I don't see why LIST EXTENSIONS can't be streamable.  Yes, it would be kind
of dumb to go ahead and depend on behavior the server hasn't confirmed yet,
but that's also true of anything that changes the group context or article
pointer, which is, well, most commands.