[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS and an NNTPv2 capability

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87acurh9qz.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>The proposed solution is this:  Specify in our base draft that any server
>that fully complies with the new specification advertise the NNTPv2
>capability as part of LIST EXTENSIONS.  Clients can then ignore or treat
>with dubiousness any server that doesn't advertise that capability, thus
>solving the Collabra problem.

I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. Presumably the two
implementations that currently do it wrong will shortly be mended to do it
right. So the alternative of putting up with the situation for a hopefully
shortish transitional period can also be considered.

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