[NNTP] Re: [ietf-nntp] DATE: reader or general command

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

>> The current pre-drafts have the DATE command listed as a reader
>> command, presumably because its typically used with NEWNEWS.  However,
>> since the command is fairly benign and may have alternative uses in the
>> future, wouldn't it make more sense to label it as a general command?

> OTOH, an implementation that chose not to provide NEWNEWS would have no
> reason to provide DATE, so I still think pairing them together (e.g. by
> listing both as reader commands) makes reasonable sense.

I think that we can just leave well enough alone.  I'd like to instead
look at adopting something like Andrew's proposal for describing the
stripped-down transit command set, which would make this point moot.

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