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

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> 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.

Right, but this is still tied to issue 2505.  I was asking if we're 
going to have a separate MODE_READER capability, an argument to the 
READER capability or use Clive's "negative capability" proposal.

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