[NNTP] Future-proofing for including capabilities in responses

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Wed Mar 30 03:07:46 PST 2005


In <gXOLT8leDYSCFA3J at highwayman.com> Richard Clayton <richard at highwayman.com> writes:

>In message <20050329125605.GR89808 at finch-staff-1.thus.net>, Clive D.W.
>Feather <clive at demon.net> writes

>>In both cases we're looking for a delimiter for *machine* parsing - humans
>>would not normally be examining this text, so why does it matter?

>because sometimes humans DO look at the text, for example when things
>are broken and they're checking out what really happens with telnet (or
>whatever)   that's why IETF protocols are "readable" and aren't just
>full of magic byte values to mean  "ARTICLE" or "GROUP" or whatever

Absolutely. I was about to right a similar response, but Richard has
beaten me to it.

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