[NNTP] Base document status

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Mon Mar 7 08:39:40 PST 2005


Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Here's a list of further changes since my message yesterday.
> 
> 
> [In 3.3.1]
>
> [...]
> 
> + Note that a capability line can only begin with a letter.
> + Lines beginning with other characters are reserved for future
> + versions of this specification. In order to inter-work with such versions,
> + clients MUST be prepared to receive lines beginning with other characters
> + and MUST ignore any they do not understand.

Can we change "inter-work" to "inter-operate"?


> [In 3.4.1]
> 
> - A server MUST advertise either the IHAVE capability or the READER
> - capability (or both). Except as an effect of the MODE READER command
> - (see below), it MUST NOT change which of these it advertises during
> - a session.
> + Except as an effect of the MODE READER command on a mode-switching
> + server, once a server advertises either or both of the IHAVE or READER
> + capabilities, it MUST NOT cease to advertise them later in the session.

Can we change the double negative to "it MUST continue to advertise them 
for the entire session"?


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