[NNTP] Changes to draft-ietf-nntpext-tls-nntp-03

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Mon Oct 18 02:27:18 PDT 2004


Ken Murchison said:
> Based on list traffic, here are the only changes that I have to this 
> draft for a -04 revision (and hopefully WGLC).  I'm not sure if the 
> "MUST NOT return either 480 or 483" is correct grammar.

It is for me.

> Should this be 
> "either 480 nor 483", should I remove "either",

No. If you want to use "nor", the correct English is "... must return
neither 480 nor 483 ...", but that doesn't use "MUST NOT" and isn't good
RFC-speak.

> or is there better 
> english available that I'm too thick to come up with?

I think what you have is fine.

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