ietf-nntp Generic Response Codes wording
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Mon Oct 13 00:35:30 PDT 2003
Peter Robinson said:
>>> I suggest this:
>>> With the exception of the 500 response to mandatory commands,
>>> the client MUST be prepared to receive any of these responses
>>> for any command.
>> I'm not sure that fixes it.
> No? I don't see that.
It's not clear to me that someone who would be confused by the original
wording would definitely not be confused by this.
> Either I am too close, or I don't understand the
> intended meaning. Can you suggest alternative wording that does fix it?
What I've now got is:
The client MUST be prepared to receive any of these responses for
any command (except, of course, that the server MUST NOT generate
a 500 response code for mandatory commands).
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