[NNTP] Revisiting POST as a separate capability

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Mon Mar 28 02:27:17 PST 2005


In <87oed7li7u.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>It also then looks odd.  We would be leaving LISTGROUP as the only command
>capability that isn't its own line in CAPABILITIES.  (That's more of an
>aesthetic argument, though, and isn't as strong.)

Then let LISTGROUP have its own capabilities (for consistency and
avoidance of confusion), but say somewhere that "The LISTGROUP capability
MUST NOT be advertised if the READER capability is not advertised also".

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