[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

[Mark Crispin]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> If you want the switch to happen in response to a pipelinable command,
> then you have to start worrying about preserving the pipeline over the
> handoff (which in the transit->reader direction is a fork+exec of a new
> program; there is no way back).

That is a server implementation issue.  It is not something that should be 
inflicted on the client.

NNTP sure stands out as being a protocol of, by, and for servers and 
server developers.  Perhaps the NNTP community would be happier if there 
weren't any clients.

-- Mark --

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