ietf-nntp Draft 20 pre-release 2
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Mon Oct 13 00:41:35 PDT 2003
Charles Lindsey said:
> 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.
Surely that only applies if LIST EXTENSIONS is carrying security
information? If the only thing the client knows about is XENCRYPT, then
there's no *security* issue in trying the command without LIST EXTENSIONS
first.
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