[NNTP] 500 v 501

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Wed Jan 5 14:22:07 PST 2005


Russ Allbery said:
>> 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.

I wouldn't call it "compelling"; I found myself writing convoluted wording
that basically says "'command not implemented' is 500 unless it's a
two-word command, when it's 501". I can cope.

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