[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

[Mark Crispin]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Ken Murchison wrote:
> Would Pine gracefully handle "401 MODE-READER" in response to STARTTLS or 
> AUTHINFO?  If so, then we already have a simple way out of this.

No.  It does the startup sequence in a particular order, based upon 
empirical evidence that some servers would not accept MODE READER unless 
you did AUTHINFO first.

-- Mark --

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