[ietf-nntp] Re: OVER message-id

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> I wrote:

>> At some point we put "OVER message-id" back into the protocol.
>> 
>> Andrew from Supernews is objecting to this, saying that it's impractical
>> in "every major server design".

> In the absence of any further discussion, I have added text to make this
> optional, with response code 503 if unsupported.

Sounds good to me.

>> For the same technical reasons, he suggests that:
>> 
>>     HDR Xref <message-id>
>>     HDR :lines <message-id>
>> 
>> may be problematical.

> Again, in the absence of further discussion, I've added wording to HDR
> to allow it to have different lists of available headers/metadata for
> the message-id and article number versions. I've also added an optional
> MSGID parameter to LIST HEADERS, indicating that the former rather than
> the latter list should be returned.

Also sounds good to me.

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