[NNTP] [2505] CAPABILITIES indication of features not currently available

[Russ Allbery]

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

>> It's not implementation complexity that I'm worrying about so much as
>> complexity of the standard itself.  It's not that the software has to
>> understand all of that; it's that an implementor has to read it all and
>> understand it and figure out when to use it and how to use it properly.

> That is something I can cure by writing it better. Let me have another go
> and see what you think then.

I'll certainly take a look, but really, I don't think it's a matter of
wording; regardless of how it's worded, it adds syntactic complexity to
the CAPABILITIES command.  Not a lot, admittedly, but I'm also not seeing
a lot of benefit for the way that I expect most clients to work.

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