ietf-nntp Draft 20 pre-release 2

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Sat Oct 11 15:17:01 PDT 2003


In <1g2m6rn.11peg6pnzyqkqN%pmrobinson at gmx.net> pmrobinson at gmx.net (Peter Robinson) writes:

>Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

>> I'd like to get an opinion from someone who was arguing for allowing the
>> caching.

>I argued for it mainly because of the inconsistency with the client not
>being required to ask for the information at all. 

Indeed so. If the security considerations are going to point out dangers
of cacheing, then they should point out dangers of not consulting LIST
EXTENSIONS as the same time.

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