[NNTP] CAPABILITIES problem!

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Charles Lindsey said:
>> I have no idea why there's a limit either.  We've had a limit, as Ken
>> noted, for the entirety of this process, but I don't know why it was added
>> in the first place since RFC 977 doesn't have one.
> Life is always simpler with strings of a known maximum length (no need to
> malloc space every time a new string is encountered).

But, in this day and age, what's wrong with the already-known maximum of
510?

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