ietf-nntp Server response length limits

[Russ Allbery]

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

> Actually, I always thought that 512 limit was a bit tight, especially
> for NEWNEWS. It would be more sense to make it 1000, leaving 998 after
> allowing for the CRLF, since 998 seems to be a common limit elsewhere in
> the mail/news world.

This is definitely one of those existing practices things.  Increasing the
512 limit will then be inconsistent with limits on existing servers.

> But I suppose it is too late now (though I think someone did suggest an
> entension).

Yeah, an extension is the way to do it.

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