[NNTP] Snapshot 6

Peter Robinson pmrobinson at gmx.net
Thu Jan 13 14:51:34 PST 2005


Charles Lindsey wrote:

> In <87wtuitpqk.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
> writes:
> 
> >The problem is that we have two different things with which we can be
> >consistent:  we can make a simple rule across the board that all list
> >varients are advertised via the LIST capability, or we can have one
> >capability per linked set of commands.  Either way we go, we break the
> >other consistency principle.
> 
> Indeed. I prefer the first, Ken prefers the second.

I prefer the first (for all LIST variants to be arguments to the LIST
capability) more from a sense of neatness than anything else.  As long
as the document is clear one way or the other, I don't see this as a
huge issue.

Peter



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