[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Nov 9 16:47:38 PST 2004


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

> As far as interoperability, I respectfully suggest that the current
> situation, in which MODE READER can respond with "can't do this until
> you AUTHINFO first", and AUTHINFO can respond with "can't do this until
> you MODE READER first" is not condusive to interoperability.

We've already reached a list consensus that 480 responses to MODE READER
will be explicitly banned by the standard.  You may not have gotten a copy
of that, though (I think you're getting about 75% of the list mail right
now but not all of it).

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



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