[NNTP] Extension snapshots 2

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Sorry: tuit supply shortage at work.
> 
> Russ Allbery said:
> [quite a lot of sensible things]
> 
>>Would it help if we just said that MODE READER MAY (but is not required
>>to) reset the connection to the state that it was in immediately after the
>>initial connection?
> 
> 
> I can live with that. How does this look:
> 
>     If the server is mode-switching, it switches from its transit mode to
>     its reader mode, indicating the fact by changing the capability list
>     accordingly, and then MUST return a 200 or 201 response with the same
>     meaning as for the initial greeting (as described in [REF]); note that
>     the response need not be the same as the one presented during the
> !   initial greeting. The client MUST NOT issue MODE READER more than once
> !   in a session or after any security or privacy commands are issued.
> !   When the MODE READER command is issued, the server MAY reset its state
> !   to that immediately after the initial connection before switching mode.

Simple and to the point.  I like it.

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