[NNTP] LIST OVERFIEW.FMT capability

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed May 25 09:20:48 PDT 2005


Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> Consider an implementation that provides XOVER but not OVER. It can
> advertise LIST OVERVIEW.FMT but can't advertise OVER.

Although note that the LIST OVERVIEW.FMT command description says that it
returns the fields returned by OVER, so it's not at all clear what it
should return on a server that doesn't implement OVER.  It's kind of a
nonsensical thing to do.

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



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