[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Nov 5 19:53:55 PST 2004


Russ Allbery wrote:
> Mark Crispin <MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
> 
>>On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Hm.  That strikes me as odd -- how does an NNTPv2 client know if a server
>>>advertising NNTPv3 is okay or not?
> 
> 
>>The server must advertise both NNTPv2 and NNTPv3.  A server which just
>>advertises NNTPv3 is not OK to an NNTPv2 client.
> 
> 
> Okay.  Ken's statement was that if NNTPv3 adds to but retains all of
> NNTPv2's functionality, the server need only advertise NNTPv3.  Your
> statement above implies to me that this is not correct and it does need to
> continue to advertise NNTPv2.

Mark is correct.  I was trying to multi-task when I wrote that and had a 
brain fart.

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