[NNTP] Capabilities in responses (Was: MODE READER)

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Mark Crispin said:
> 
>>Better would be something like the following, which uses an IMAP-like 
>>mechanism to carry capabilities in responses, and flushes MODE READER:
>>
>>	S: 200 [STARTTLS] NNTP server, negotiate TLS now
> 
> 
> I'm still thinking on this. As I said before, it isn't compatible with NNTP
> as currently specified but that's not irretrievable.

I'm not sure why this would be incompatible.  Obviously the ABNF would 
have to change to accomodate this, but from a client perspective it 
wouldn't be a big deal.  For a client which handles this, it parses the 
contents of "[ ... ]", otherwise, it looks just like trailing-comment.

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