[NNTP] Future-proofing for including capabilities in responses

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87k6nvlhy0.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>Do we have a consensus to add that final response to STARTTLS to enable
>work in this area in the future?  Ken, are you uncomfortable doing that
>given the existence of earlier implementations that don't return a final
>response?

I am unhappy having a response sent which is encrypted if the command had
succeeded, but unencrypted if it had failed. At least the present
situation does not have that problem.

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