[NNTP] Re: MODE READER

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Thu Nov 11 05:27:34 PST 2004


Ken Murchison said:
> As an aside, what, if any, legacy extensions should a server list via 
> LIST EXTENSIONS for backwards compatibility with existing clients?  Or 
> is the number of clients which use LIST EXTENSIONS too small to worry 
> about, especially if the current LIST EXTENSIONS output can't be trusted?

My intent, when adding CAPABILITY, is to either remove LIST EXTENSIONS
entirely or, for the benefit of existing clients, to require its output to
be the extensions part of the CAPABILITY output. If that isn't clear,
please wait for the draft.

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