ietf-nntp LIST EXTENSION caching, latest wording
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org
Mon Oct 13 03:45:59 PDT 2003
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
Mmm, improving. Some pedantry --
> While some extensions are likely to be always available or never
> available, others will "appear" and "disappear" depending on other
> changes.
"other changes" is awkward/confusing, can you rephrase more precisely?
> An NNTP client may cache the results of this command, but
> MUST NOT rely on any cached results - whether from earlier in this
> session or from a previous session - remaining correct,
The interjected phrase there surprises my mental parser, what about "but
MUST NOT rely on the correctness of any cached results" so the whole
phrase is together?
> Furthermore, a client MUST NOT use cached results in
> relation to security, privacy, and authentication extensions. See
> Section 11.6 for further discussion of this topic.
Wait, how does this interact with the "earlier in this session" above?
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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org
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