ietf-nntp LIST ACTIVE issues

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

>    Other values for the
>    status may exist; the definition of these other values and the
>    circumstances under which they are returned may be specified in an
>    extension or may be private to the server. A client SHOULD treat an  
>    unrecognised status as giving no information.

I'm a little concerned about the last sentence there.  I mean, a client 
has to do *something* should it encounter an unrecognized status.  Do we 
really want every client author making up the behavior?  If not, some sort 
of guideline would seem to be in order.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org