[NNTP] Language for extensions and capabilities

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Fri Dec 3 05:59:01 PST 2004


Russ Allbery said:
>> Now that we've moved from LIST EXTENSIONS to [LIST ] CAPABILITIES, how
>> should the documents refer to the tokens advertised by CAPABILITIES? 

> I'd like to call them capabilities; I think that's more accurate.

My text uses the term "capability" for the concept, "capability list" for
the output from CAPABILITIES, "capability line" for one line of that
output, and will use "capability name" for the keyword token (the one at
the start of the line at present, but see other threads).

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