[NNTP] RE: Last Call: 'Network News Transfer Protocol' to Proposed Standard

[Charles Lindsey]

In <20050525104903.GK20064 at finch-staff-1.thus.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:


>Making a quick scan, it contains the following:

>XHDR                 - replaced by HDR in core document
>XOVER                - replaced by OVER in core document

Yes, but XHDR and XOVER are hard coded into too many existing agents, so
servers will need to provide them for many years to come (probably as just
synonyms for HDR and OVER). RFC 2980 remains as the justification for
their existence. I would expect servers that provide them to include
XHDR and XOVER in their CAPABILITIES.

This might be worth a brief mention somewhere, but I don't think any
2980bis is called for.

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