[NNTP] Extension snapshots 2

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> Sorry: tuit supply shortage at work.

No problem; I'm having the same difficulty.  Sorry that I was so snippy in
one of the messages that I sent out last week.  :/  Lots of things going
on.

> 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.

> [This paragraph only applies to mode-switching servers. For all other
> servers MODE READER is a no-op or closes the connection, as appropriate.]

This looks great to me.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>