[ietf-nntp] Re: AUTHINFO/SASL responses

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Tue May 18 09:18:23 PDT 2004


Russ Allbery said:
>>> Not a new code, please.
>> Why not?
> NNTP has too many codes to keep track of and handle already.  It's a real
> pain when writing clients.

I think that one got lost long ago.

> Think of it from the client perspective.  Using this method, it can just
> treat 281 as "authentication succeeded" and 283 as "authentication
> probably succeeded but I need to check something."

Okay.

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