ietf-nntp Draft 20 pre-release 2

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Oct 9 12:05:16 PDT 2003


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> Also note that no IMAP, POP3 or SMTP client that I'm aware of caches the
> capabilties list.  Why does an NNTP client need to be different?

We covered this already.  NNTP clients are almost always anonymous.  IMAP
and POP3 clients are practically never anonymous.  SMTP is not analogous
since the capabilities list for SMTP is part of the greeting.

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



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