[NNTP] Snapshot 4

[Kai Henningsen]

ken at oceana.com (Ken Murchison)  wrote on 03.12.04 in <41B08E2A.3080208 at oceana.com>:

> Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>
> > Ken Murchison said:
> >
> >>CAPABILTIES:
> >>
> >>- May I suggest 'IMPLEMENTATION' instead of '_SERVER'.  POP3 uses the
> >>former and seems to be a more descriptive name.
> >
> >
> > No problem. Done.
> >
> > However, given Russ's concerns about the client making decisions on the
> > basis of this line, would "COMMENT" or "REMARK" be better?
>
> I think IMPLEMENTATION describes the kind of info that's
> desired/expected better than COMMENT or REMARK.
>
> As far as concern that a client would make decisions based on this:
>
> 1.  Why would it need to given the rest of the advertised capabilities?
> 2.  We can specifically state that the info is for informational
> purposes only and MUST not be used to determine a server's capabilities.
> 3.  Such clients are poorly implementated and should/will be selected
> for extinction.

4. Or the client may want to work around a bug in a particular  
implementation.

MfG Kai