[NNTP] Snapshot 4

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> Okay, a fourth snapshot is in the usual place:
>     <http://www.davros.org/nntp-texts/draft25.pre-4.txt>
>     <http://www.davros.org/nntp-texts/draft25.pre-4.html>
> 
> This is the one that has the CAPABILITIES command, version numbers, and so
> on. It is, I hope, the last major organisational change to the document.
> 
> There are a number of outstanding issues; when commenting, please quote the
> reference number [2501] [2502] etc.

Missed some outstanding issues in my previous post:

2507:  I don't think it needs to be mandatory, but general/reader 
servers SHOULD implement it (at least as a no-op) and always return 
200/201.  Transit-only servers can probably return whatever code 
corresponds to "unimplemented" (500/503).

2508:  Is the wildmat allowed by some servers and not by others?  We 
should just specify whether ACTIVE.TIMES accepts a wildmat or not, 
instead of leaving it as optional.  That way this issue is moot.

2509:  Doesn't matter to me, but this would be an easy change since this 
command is newly defined by this document.

2510:  For legacy reasons, this might be difficult.  Servers will 
probably support it anyways for XOVER clients, so does it make sense to 
have two commands which return the same info?

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