[NNTP] Re: [ietf-nntp] draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-01.txt

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> The more I think about this, isn't 439 essentially a deferral?  It says
> the transfer failed, but why?  Does mean that we should retry or does
> this mean that we rejected the article (e.g. don't send it again).

439 is a permanent rejection.  The article should not be sent again.

> I think what we need is a deferral (temp fail) code and a rejection
> code.  We might be able to use 431 and the former and 439 as the
> latter. Or if 439 already means deferral, then we can probably reuse 438
> as a rejection code.

> My guess is that 439 corresponds to 436 (second stage) and its a temp
> failure.

We definitely need to make it clearer that that's not the case, then.  :)

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