[NNTP] Snapshot 4

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Ken Murchison said:
> I also think that it *might* be worth putting this 
> token in the initial line of the CAPABILITIES response, e.g.:
[...]

See other thread.

> By doing this the client knows what the protocol version is immediately, 
> before it parses the multi-line response, and therefore we don't have to 
> specify a particular order for the capabilities list.

Agreed. That wasn't enough to convince me, but it's enough to remove any
resistance I had.

> I think most other 
> protocols also discourage deriving meaning from any initial greeting 
> text (except for SMTP's <domain> param and ad-hoc ESMTP token).

And in SMTP that's not listed as free-form text, it's specific syntax.

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