[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

[Andrew - Supernews]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Crispin <MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:

 >>> Or we can simply define a no-credentials authentication method
 >>> (ala SASL anonymous) that sets peer mode and declare client mode
 >>> to otherwise be the default.

 >> This doesn't help since it's not backward compatible with existing
 >> clients.

 Mark> Why?  We're not changing clients, we're changing NNTP peers.  I
 Mark> think that we can claim this to be in-charter.

No. Peers are clients too (and if anything they are harder to change than
reader clients).

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