[NNTP] LIST OVERFIEW.FMT capability

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon May 23 18:37:31 PDT 2005


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> IMO, yes.  And LIST OVERVIEW.FMT should only be advertised if OVER is
> advertised.

> It's a good question and a point of confusion that I wanted to avoid by
> not having OVERVIEW.FMT (and HEADERS for that matter) listed in the
> "LIST" capability at all.  The OVER capability should be enough to
> indicate that the OVER and LIST OVERVIEW.FMT commands are available, but
> I lost this argument.

Yeah, but I could have sworn that we added language somewhere else to make
this clear.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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