ietf-nntp LIST EXTENSIONS non-pipelined and non-cacheable?

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Wed Sep 10 08:34:06 PDT 2003


Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Ken Murchison said:
> 
>>>This has made me think of something. Would it help if LIST EXTENSIONS had a
>>>way of saying "I also provide this extension, but not in the current
>>>state"?
>>
>>I think this is overkill, especially is not client is going to use LIST 
>>EXTENSIONS, which is what I'm gleening from the big pushback.
> 
> 
> I'm not gleaning that at all.
> 
> The objection is to requiring its use (even via SHOULD). Encouraging is
> fine.
> 
> In that context, is it worth providing such a feature?

I still think its overkill, but I'm not going to stand in the way.

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