[NNTP] [2507] What to do with MODE READER?

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Nov 30 20:19:20 PST 2004


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

> Issue: what do we do with the MODE READER command? Make it optional on
> servers that aren't mode-switching?

> Ken Murchison said:
>> 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.

> Personally I think it should be mandatory. The effort of returning a fixed
> code isn't exactly big.

If we keep it, I think it should be mandatory to implement; as you say,
returning a fixed response code is trivial.

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



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