[NNTP] Snapshot 2 and straw poll

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> I've produced a second snapshot, available at
> <http://www.davros.org/nntp-texts/draft25.pre-2.txt>
> <http://www.davros.org/nntp-texts/draft25.pre-2.html>

> For this one I moved generic LIST back to being a core command rather than
> an extension, but it doesn't have to accept any keywords other than the
> three mandatory ones. The functionality is identical to 25.pre-1, but the
> presentation is different.

> In my personal opinion, this is a better approach than pre-1.

> I can easily use either version in the next draft, and both will require
> some trivial tuning when we resolve the other issues on the table. In
> the meantime, I'd like opinions and so am calling a straw poll:

> [A]  I prefer this approach in 25.pre-2.
> [B]  I prefer the LIST extension approach in 25.pre-1.
> [C]  I prefer the optional command approach of draft 24.
> [D]  They're all bad, here's my suggestion:

I like the pre-2 version the best, I think.

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