ietf-nntp LIST ACTIVE issues

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylr88wskre.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>>> A mode of n means that messages from peers are accepted as normal, but
>>> messages posted by local readers are rejected.

>> Yes, but what is the definition of "peers" and "local"?

>The conventional and normal NNTP interpretations of those terms.  I don't
>understand what you're asking.

Except they aren't used in our draft. If "peers" means "those clients that
have full IHAVE privilege" and "local" means "those clients that can only
use mode READER", then that is fine.

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