[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Tue Nov 2 12:16:11 PST 2004


Ken Murchison said:
> I was just scanning nntp-24 and noticed that LIST OVERVIEW.FMT is listed 
> as optional.

Yes, but it's part of the OVER extension which is why I left it out of my
previous messages.

> This seems somewhat questionable to me.  If the server 
> advertises support for OVER, what shouldn't it support LIST 
> OVERVIEW.FMT?  If the answer is because some legacy implementations 
> don't support it, my response is who cares?  OVER is new and we can and 
> should be able to enforce support for LIST OVERVIEW.FMT.

Fine with me, but we need rough consensus on the list.

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