[NNTP] Revisiting POST as a separate capability

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Fri Mar 25 04:09:09 PST 2005


In <42430DAB.30104 at oceana.com> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

>Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
>> 
>>>Yes, there's nothing inconsistent about POST without READER, but do we
>>>want to encourage it? I would suggest that we don't.
>> 
>> 
>> I don't think this constitutes encouragement, just making it possible.
>> After thinking about this for a while, I do think we should make it
>> possible (although it's not sufficiently important enough to me to argue
>> against a consensus if people disagree).

>I'm perfectly happy to separate POST from READER.

I would be somewhat unhappy.

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