[NNTP] Extensions drafts

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Tue Jun 7 22:39:51 PDT 2005


Ken Murchison said:
> I was sent a message offline about the fact that the extension drafts 
> discuss some of the generic responses (namely 480, 483, 504), but don't 
> list them in the formal syntax/response sections.  I realize that these 
> responses are valid for *any* command, but I can see the point that 
> since we're outside of the base document that they it may be worth 
> listing them as valid responses and mentioning that they are defined in 
> the base doc.  Thoughts?

We're clear that these documents extend NNTP and defer to the base document
in lots of ways. Are you going to copy in the rules for comments at the end
of response lines, or how to do dot-stuffing, or what UTF-8 is, or ...? Of
course not. I don't see this as different.

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