[NNTP] Snapshot 6
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Fri Jan 7 12:29:38 PST 2005
Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
Since we're all in agreement on this, we could revisit allowing NEWNEWS
to be an optional argument to READER. I only bring this up because
AFAIK INN still allows NEWNEWS to be optional.
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