[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

[Russ Allbery]

Howard Swinehart <binaryboy at binaryboy.com> writes:

> How about if we use the NNTPVx tokens exactly as you described with one
> additional note that tokens beginning with the 5 letters "NNTPV" are
> reserved for indicating the protocol version.  This way clients can
> reliably detect a NNTPV2 or higher protocol by checking for NNTPV*, they
> can detect current broken servers by the lack of NNTPV* and they can
> detect future incompatible versions by the lack of NNTPV2.  RFC977
> servers are detected by an error on LIST EXTENSIONS as before.

I don't have a problem with that; that seems reasonable to me.

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