[NNTP] DATE: reader or general command

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Dec 3 08:37:25 PST 2004


Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Russ Allbery said:

>> It's outside the scope of the revisions that we're supposed to be
>> doing, kind of, but it's a pretty simple change, so yes, I think so.  I
>> don't see how it could hurt, and it more closely matches reality.

> Okay, it's done.

> Since it's glaring me in the face, what about DATE?

Let's leave it.  It doesn't make a lot of difference, so let's go with
existing practice.

> Out of interest, what does transit-mode INN do with "HEAD 1234" or
> "STAT" with no arguments?

Um, nothing good I bet.  Let me check....

Returns a 435 error code.  Yeah, that's broken.  It should just say that
the user isn't in a group.  That's something I need to fix in INN.

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



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