[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Thu Nov 4 22:00:14 PST 2004
Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Ken Murchison said:
>> 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.
I have no problems with making it mandatory. Mark has convinced me to
fear and hate optional commands. :)
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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