[ietf-nntp] Re: SASL capability

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Ken Murchison wrote:

> Right now "people"is the three of us.  ;)

I'm here!  Just quiet.


> Can we get some other opinions on this?  The two choices on the table are:
> 
> AUTHINFO USER SASL:DIGEST-MD5,EXTERNAL
> AUTHINFO USER SASL=DIGEST-MD5 SASL=EXTERNAL
> 
> In lieu of other opinions, I'm going to move forward with SASL: since 
> Clive has voiced the only semi-strong opinion either way.

I agree with the colon/comma one, actually.  It better fits my conceptual
model of how LIST EXTENSIONS output should be, and avoids all sorts of 
nasty-looking parsing issues (like other arguments intermingled between 
SASL= blocks).


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org