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

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> I guess what I'm getting at is is MODE STREAM a formal part of the
> STREAMING extension, or just an obsolete command that some
> implementations may need for backwards compatibility.

I consider it to be the latter, but I do think that people need to
implement it for the time being.

> It just rubs me the wrong way to formalize a command that we're trying
> toi deprecate.  Of course, I guess we're doing this already aith
> AUTHINFO USER/PASS.

Yeah, the case seems somewhat analogous.

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