[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-04
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Mon Oct 4 12:35:42 PDT 2004
Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> I disagree violently.
> The description of LIST EXTENSIONS talks about the list altering as
> internal state changes. For example, if a command
> is only available before or after a MODE READER command, the LIST
> EXTENSIONS command MUST only include the extension in that situation.
> Note that "MUST".
> A server might not want to advertise a private capability to clients
> that haven't authenticated themselves, and it seems more than reasonable
> that they should be allowed not to do so.
Yeah, never mind. That was a bad idea on my part.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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