ietf-nntp Draft 17 pre-2

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Mon Mar 3 06:40:46 PST 2003


"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote:
> 
> Ken Murchison said:
> >
> > There *are* reasons why POP3, IMAP, and SMTP have extension discovery
> > commands, and clients *use* them.
> 
> POP3 does?

Yup.  RFC 2449.


> Which reminds me - why *is* RFC 1939 cited in the draft?


I have no clue, but my guess is that because the two protocols are so
similar, that some syntax and/or text was borrowed.

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