[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Tue Nov 9 03:39:26 PST 2004
Mark Crispin said:
> Done right, clients should be able to care only about the first digit of
> the response code.
Excuse me? Do you really mean this as a generic comment?
If so, what is the point of having these detailed codes? I can understand
the approach of "use the first digit if you don't recognise the code", but
we've explicitly forbidden unknown responses to existing commands.
Anyway, what should you do with a 377 response? Or a 123? If you get 299,
is there following dot-stuffed text or not? Etc.
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