[NNTP] Snapshot 4

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Wed Dec 1 11:49:12 PST 2004


Russ Allbery wrote:

> 
> This does make me feel better about the idea, although it makes me wonder
> why IMAP went the route of a different command.  Maybe because in IMAP
> capabilities can't take arguments?

That would be my guess.  All IMAP capabilites are listed in a single 
line response (whitespace separated), so they really can't have 
arguments, and definitely can't have freeform text.

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