ietf-nntp Last major open issue (48x return codes)

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87ekysgixj.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>For the latter question, I think reserving 48x codes to mean that a
>command is unavailable unless some authentication or privacy extension is
>invoked is the best approach.

Something like that, but are there other circumstances? Essentially it is
saying "I can't let you do that unless you jump through some hoops first"
(hopefully the accompanying text and/or the value of 'x' will tell you
which hoop).

Clearly, the obvious hoops are authentication and privacy, but could there
be others we have not thought of yet, and should the wording be broad
enought to cover them in the future?

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