ietf-nntp Draft 20 pre-release 2

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> The SMTP capabilities are not part of the greeting, they are part of the
> EHLO command.  A client is not required to use EHLO, but is encouraged
> to do so at the start of every connection.

You're missing the point, I think.  You have to send either HELO or EHLO,
so there's no round trip penalty.

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