[NNTP] AUTHINFO diffs

[Ken Murchison]

Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:

> 
> So, then, what's the actual meaning of the "Unrecognized..." sentence?  
> Is there any protocol problem we're at risk here?  The "Future 
> extensions..." sentence is useful, but what does the second sentence add?

The second sentence is just telling the client that it shouldn't 
choke/crash/format-hard-drive if its sees an AUTHINFO option that it 
doesn't know about.  It should continue using those that it does know 
about, hence the "MUST ignore".

As far as reporting unrecognized options to the user, we're not 
preventing this at all.  All we're discussing in our document is the 
protocol, not user interaction.

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