[NNTP] Revisiting POST as a separate capability

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87zmwvmgb8.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>I'd like to take another step back from that.  Does anyone remember why we
>felt like advertising POST without READER didn't make any sense?  I seem
>to recall that we had that discussion, but I can't find it in the mailing
>list archives (it may have been part of that huge thread about the initial
>LIST EXTENSIONS rethink when we weren't changing subject headers).  I'm
>not aware of any servers currently that allow POST without the READER
>commands intentionally, but it's certainly a sensible configuration and I
>believe possible in INN.

Surely the point is that a server that does not advertise READER is a
transit-only server, and transit servers just don't do POST (they do
IHAVE, or TAKETHIS, or whatever).

So leave it be.

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