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

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87llcb1er6.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:

>> Note, it uses a standard NNTP server, but only invokes those particular
>> commands. But one could envisage a server cut down and optimized just to
>> service that particular kind of client.

>So you have not heard of such a server either, you just think that one
>might possibly exist.

Indeed; I never claimed that such a server existed. But it should be
possible to construct one and to give a sensible set of CAPABILITES for
it. Mind you, a 'reader' server with POST inhibited and various optional
commands not implemented would probably be near enough.

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