[NNTP] Snapshot 6

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Jan 7 09:58:26 PST 2005


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

>>> OVER and HDR should be separate capabilities because they *can* be
>>> used by message-ID (and note that we still have HEAD in the mandatory
>>> commands).

>> Would a transit server really support either of these?

> Pass, but I could make an argument for it if I tried.

I doubt it, but I also don't want to deal with having different arguments
for the two different OVER styles.

>> Like I said earlier, I'm not going to make a big stink about this, but
>> I think making LISTGROUP an argument to READER and leaving HDR and OVER
>> as separate capabilities is a good compromise (for all of the reasons
>> Clive mentioned).

> Works for me. Done.

Sounds good here.

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



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