[NNTP] 500 v 501

[Russ Allbery]

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

> Since we're revisiting this area ...

> If a command like LIST ACTIVE is not implemented, the response code is:
> * 500 if LIST itself is not implemented;
> * 501 if other LIST commands *are* implemented.
> The logic for this was that the command is LIST and it has a number of
> variants; picking the wrong variant is a syntax error.

> Do we want to retain this, or do we want to say that some commands have
> two parts to the name and so 500 is always the right response?

Unless there's a compelling reason to change it, I'd rather leave it alone
to avoid changing too many things at this point.

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