ietf-nntp draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-00

[Charles Lindsey]

In <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306041908400.4175-100000 at puck.litech.org> "Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> writes:

>Indeed, indeed.  I'm thinking about the optimization where TAKETHIS may be
>used without an initial CHECK.  In that case, knowing the difference
>between refusal and rejection is definitely useful.

But where these are useful differences of that sort, then normal practice
would be to provide different response codes, surely? Is this information
for humans, or are clients expected to react differently (e.g. by trying
or not trying again)?

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