[NNTP] CAPABILITIES problem!

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> We can change or remove either or both limits. For example:
> 
>   A "keyword" MUST consist only of US-ASCII letters, digits, and the
>   characters dot (".") and dash ("-"), and MUST begin with a letter.
>   Keywords MUST be at least three characters and MUST NOT exceed 16
>   characters.
> 
>     keyword = ALPHA 2*15(ALPHA / DIGIT / "." / "-")
> 
> or:
> 
>   A "keyword" MUST consist only of US-ASCII letters, digits, and the
>   characters dot (".") and dash ("-"), and MUST begin with a letter.
>   Keywords MUST be at least two characters.
> 
>     keyword = ALPHA 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT / "." / "-")

My preference would be one of these two changes.  If we do limit the 
length, is 16 still too short?  How about 20?  I still like 3 as the 
lower limit.


> No other wording changes would be needed. I don't know what the
> implications are of changing the minimum or maximum command length. There
> is no such limit in RFC 977 and I don't know where it came from.

It looks like it was in Stan's -01 draft, but I can't find any 
discussion leading up to this change.

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