[NNTP] Future-proofing for including capabilities in responses

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> 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?

Yeah, I'm uncomfortable doing it for the reasons already mentioned:

- its not done this way in similar protocols
- success/failure responses would be asymmetric (encrypted/unencrypted)
- its redundant

I'd rather go with a separate response which is enabled by the client, 
like Clive suggested.

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