[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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