[NNTP] CAPABILITIES problem!

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Mon Aug 1 22:35:11 PDT 2005


Ned Freed said:
>> Possible solutions:
>> (1) Relax the 12 character limit to something longer (where did it come
>> from anyway?).
>> (2) Relax the requirement for the label to be a keyword.
>> (3) Change the keyword to something shorter, like SERVER_INFO.
> 
> My personal preference would be to bump the limit to 16 or even 32 characters.
> 12 seems a bit short.

As I said, I'm not sure where the limit comes from in the first place.

But, as Russ asks, what's the formal process?

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