ietf-nntp Generic responses

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> Looking again at the generic responses, it strikes me that almost all of
> them can occur for any command. It would therefore be best if clients
> were prepared for this.

> Therefore I suggest we add the following paragraph to 4.1.1:

>     With the exception of 500 for mandatory commands, the client MUST
>     be prepared to receive these responses for any command.

That sounds like a good idea to me.

> If we do this, do we need to list the generic responses as part of each
> command's description ?

This may obviate the need for the separate listing of generic responses
for each command, which would be a good thing just in terms of reducing
the amount of detail that can be accidentally transcribed wrong or be
missed in proofreading.

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