[NNTP] [2501] Reader commands in transit servers and vice-versa

[Andrew - Supernews]

>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

 Ken> Having digested this weekend's posts, here's my current
 Ken> thinking.

 Ken> - We have a set of mandatory "core" commands which *all* servers
 Ken> MUST implement.  The set of "core" commands is defined by the
 Ken> VERSION capability and as of VERSION 2, these are: CAPABILITIES,
 Ken> QUIT, HEAD, STAT, LIST ACTIVE

You can make a good argument that even in that list, HEAD, STAT and
LIST ACTIVE don't belong. In fact a majority of transit-only
implementations don't implement at least one of those.

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