ietf-nntp Draft 17 pre-2

Charles Lindsey chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk
Wed Feb 26 03:54:28 PST 2003


In <ylof50ozyi.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

>> Is there some technical reason why clients would/should/might not want
>> to do option discovery,

>Not that I can think of.

A user agent for general use, with all the bells and whistles, should
clearly do it.

But if I am just hacking up a quick script using telnet or perl or
whatever to access a server that I know well and access regularly, then I
don't want to be forced to issue commands that are irrelevant to my
immediate purpose.

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