ietf-nntp Optional commands not in LIST EXTENSIONS

Peter Robinson pmrobinson at gmx.net
Mon Oct 13 03:29:43 PDT 2003


Is it the intention that there are optional commands that are not
advertised in LIST EXTENSIONS?  Currently, there are

 LIST ACTIVE.TIMES
 LIST DISTRIBUTIONS
 LIST DISTRIB.PATS
 LIST NEWSGROUPS

These are not strictly "extensions", and I imagine that the first three
at least are relatively under-used, but a client that maintains an
offline NEWSGROUPS file might want to use LIST NEWSGROUPS <wildmat>
(after NEWGROUPS) in every session.

On the other hand, perhaps we don't want to bulk out the LIST EXTENSIONS
response with these.

Peter




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