[ietf-nntp] draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-01.txt

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> MODE STREAM doesn't set state on the server.  That's my point.  MODE
>> STREAM is nothing more or less than a single-feature version of LIST
>> EXTENSIONS.

> But are we quite sure? Maybe some server finds it convenient for
> whatever reason to change its state. If not, why was this command ever
> invented?

It was invented because we needed a single-feature version of LIST
EXTENSIONS to avoid sending TAKETHIS to a server that didn't understand
it.

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