ietf-nntp Server response length limits

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Jeffrey M. Vinocur said:
> Just to be sure that I'm reading the latest draft correctly...
> 
> A single-line server response must begin with a response code, and other
> than that can be of unbounded length.  Is this true?

That's right.

Certain response codes are followed by a group name or a message-ID; there
is no limit on the length of these *in NNTP*. And the trailing text can
have any length (but, of course, you are supposed to ignore it).

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