[ietf-nntp] draft21.pre-2

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> The argument for this is that we have gone to great lengths to allow the
> client to determine which optional parts of the protocol are supported
> by simply calling LIST EXTENSIONS.  Skipping this for OVER by msgid and
> forcing the the client to use trial and error seems like a step
> backwards (or at least not a step forwards).

> Unless there is a good technical reason why we shouldn't/can't do this,
> I think we should add it just for completeness sake.

Yeah, I think that's a perfectly reasonable and persuasive argument.

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