[NNTP] DATE: reader or general command

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> The current pre-drafts have the DATE command listed as a reader command,
> presumably because its typically used with NEWNEWS.  However, since the
> command is fairly benign and may have alternative uses in the future,
> wouldn't it make more sense to label it as a general command?

I think this is just an artifact of following existing practice; in INN,
DATE is a reader-only command.  I don't particularly care one way or the
other; it's simple enough to add DATE to innd, but I also can't think of a
reason why a peer would care to use it.

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