ietf-nntp HDR parameter proposal

[Russ Allbery]

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

> No, I've changed my position since I first proposed OVERVIEW as a HDR
> parameter.

> I now think it should mean
>    "HDR will return (at least) those headers which would have appeared in
>     an OVER command issued at that moment."

I don't understand how a client could use this information.  From the
perspective of the client, this is exactly equivalent to the server
saying:

    HDR BASE EXTRA

because it has no way of knowing or learning what headers those would be.

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