[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Nov 5 19:33:21 PST 2004


Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> Oof, these extension names (and NOREADER, NOTRANSIT) are kinda making my
> head spin.  I think we should try to stick to non-negated names where
> possible.  Even something like:

> TRANSIT YES
> READER MODE-READER-REQUIRED
> POST NO
> NEWNEWS NO

> would be less confusing, I think?

I'd rather leave off the YES/NO part if possible.  What about something
like:

    TRANSIT
    READER MODE-READER-REQUIRED

and then after MODE READER something like:

    READER
    POST
    NEWNEWS

That seems like it would work to me.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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