ietf-nntp draft-ietf-nntpext-base-19

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:

> There exists the possibility (shudder) that other variants of the MODE
> command might exist in the future, in which case the principles you set
> out below would apply pretty much as you have written them. Should it
> all be written in a more general form to cover that possibility?

Given that the MODE command is in essence a primitive extension mechanism
which is probably superseded by LIST EXTENSIONS, I hope that we'll be able
to get away without using it any more.  So I wouldn't bother making the
text general unless the issue actually arises, since hopefully it won't.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>