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

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> 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.

> It its situation in any way different from MODE READER?

Yes, significantly.  We can simply make MODE STREAM go away going forward
(there's no protocol need for it now that we have LIST EXTENSIONS), but
can't do that with MODE READER without outlawing real-world implementation
choices.

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