ietf-nntp MODE STREAM behavior/replacement

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> Do all existing clients send MODE STREAM before using CHECK and
> TAKETHIS?

Yes.

> If they do, then we can imagine having MODE STREAM invoke some sort of
> backwards compatibility mode...?

I would really prefer not to do this unless there are really significant
bugs that we have to fix, since this significantly adds to the
implementation complexity.

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