[NNTP] [2507] What to do with MODE READER?

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Dec 2 10:28:25 PST 2004


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> Are we still planning on having a MODE_READER capability?  Without this
> or the 401 response, a 502 response doesn't definitively tell the client
> that its needs to do MODE READER (unless I'm missing something).

I think we were relying on the CAPABILITIES output to tell the client that
they have to send MODE READER.

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



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