[NNTP] Re: Command names

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Sun Nov 7 01:38:56 PST 2004


In message <418B8FEB.7060709 at oceana.com>, Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes
>>>>I think we only want one of '-' and '_'. I don't greatly care which,
>>>>though I think the former is slightly preferable.

>>  I've been engaging in a completely irrational war against
>>underscores for
>>years, so I'm quite happy with a dash.  :)  (Really, I don't much care one
>>way or the other, and can't see omitting '_' causing any real problems for
>>anyone.)

Okay, that's settled then and I'll make the appropriate changes.

>Whatever we do, we should make sure that we're consistent with the use
>of the extension label as documented for the 401 response (which
>currently includes "MODE-READER").

Since this was our own, recent, invention I'm going to alter it to
"MODE_READER"; we can consistently use underscores wherever we need to
join two separate words into one.

-- 
Clive D.W. Feather  | Work:  <clive at demon.net>   | Tel:    +44 20 8495 6138
Internet Expert     | Home:  <clive at davros.org>  | Fax:    +44 870 051 9937
Demon Internet      | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646
Thus plc            |                            |



More information about the ietf-nntp mailing list