[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)
Mark Crispin
mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU
Tue Nov 9 09:00:14 PST 2004
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> 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?
Yes.
> If so, what is the point of having these detailed codes?
Documentation only.
Checking for explicit codes has a long history of being problematic in
SMTP and FTP. NNTP has a dismal history as well (need I remind you of 380
vs 480)?
-- Mark --
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