[NNTP] Snapshot 6

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Wed Jan 12 06:58:08 PST 2005


Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Peter Robinson said:
>>>Actually there is a subtle difference: -480 is more inclusive than -AUTHINFO.
>>
>>So it does.  I had assumed -AUTHINFO was a bug not a feature.
> 
> 
> It was.
> 
> While I really hope Ken doesn't do this - and will object if he did - in
> principle the AUTHINFO document *could* say "-AUTHINFO means this
> capability is only available after AUTHINFO authentication, and not after
> any other kind of authentication". But I really don't expect anyone to want
> to do it that way.

I don't have any plans to discuss capability modifiers in the extension 
docs.

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