ietf-nntp Extensions and MODE READER

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Thu Oct 9 06:13:04 PDT 2003


Russ Allbery said:
> LISTGROUP is widely implemented already and does require MODE READER.
> 
> If HDR and OVER are implemented by copying the existing XHDR and XOVER
> implementations and making minor changes, which we were trying to support
> as much as possible, they too will require MODE READER.
> 
> Given that, there doesn't seem to be any benefit served in supporting the
> LIST commands without MODE READER, so I think what you have at present is
> the right move.

Okay. I'll make some tweaks to the MODE READER wording.

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