[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Sun Nov 7 01:42:59 PST 2004


In message <87actwzvgx.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery
<rra at stanford.edu> writes
>>>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.  :)

I shall Make It So.

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