[NNTP] [2509] Rename LIST HEADERS?
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Tue Nov 30 20:10:15 PST 2004
"Andrew <- Supernews" <andrew at supernews.net>> writes:
>>>>>> "Clive" == Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Clive> Issue: should LIST HEADERS be renamed as something else, since
> Clive> it doesn't fit with much of the other LIST structure?
> No. Leave it alone.
> Firstly, this is entirely too late in the process to start pissing
> around changing stuff unnecessarily. Secondly, LIST is _exactly_
> the right place to put any infrequently-used command which returns
> a simple line-oriented result. Putting them all together in one
> place actually makes life simpler, compared to adding a bunch of
> random cruft as new top-level commands.
I'm with Andrew on this. It seems to me like it fits perfectly with the
rest of the LIST commands.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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