ietf-nntp Draft 17 pre-2

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> I agree that its not very elegant, but do we want a well-behaved client
> that does extension discovery via LIST EXTENSIONS to have to deal with a
> legacy OVERVIEW.FMT response.

I think we should bypass this entire debate and just not standardize LIST
OVERVIEW.FMT at all.  The information that it provides isn't very useful,
and worse is deceptively useful (in other words, it looks like it's more
useful than it actually is).

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