[ietf-nntp] OVER message-id

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> Ken Murchison said:
> 
>>Rather than clutter the OVER and HDR capabilities, I'd suggest just 
>>returning a 503 response.
> 
> 
> 501, surely? It's an unimplemented piece of syntax rather than "this value
> works and that doesn't".

I disagree.  OVER <msgid> is documented as valid syntax in the draft, 
and in the absence of a capability advertising that OVER <msgid> is 
unsupported, I think a 501 response would be misleading.

I think this is a case where "the server recognises the command but does 
not provide an optional feature (for example because it does not store 
the required information)", hence 503 is more appropriate.

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