[NNTP] Additions to LIST commands

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Antti-Juhani,

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:57:18AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The junk group is sometimes readable and sometimes not.  There is the
>> problem that if you want it to be readable, j currently tells the client
>> where the article can be found, whereas if it's not filed at all or in
>> some other newsgroup, the client can't find it that way.  But I think the
>> idea of reading the junk group via a regular GROUP junk command is a bit
>> dubious.  I'm not sure how many people would do that.
>
> Sounds like a SHOULD, or even a MAY.  Certainly, the relation to the junk group
> should be documented.


What do you want to document exactly?
What should be a SHOULD?

Isn't the note I put in the Internet-Draft what you were looking for?
Isn't it clear enough?  (If no, what should be changed?)

      NOTE:  The status "j" is used only by news servers on which the
      newsgroup "junk" exists.  This group has special meaning.  It
      usually contains all the postings which cannot file under a
      newsgroup name.  Instead of rejecting an article which contains an
      invalid Newsgroups header or which is posted to newsgroups it does
      not carry, a news server may accept such an article and file it
      under a generic newsgroup named "junk".  This newsgroup may be
      available to news readers and is often used by a news server as a
      way to locally store an article with the view to transmitting it
      to its peers (which may carry some of the newsgroups the article
      was posted to).

      Depending on the configuration of the news server, mentioning a
      newsgroup with status "j" is different than simply not listing the
      group, since articles arriving in unknown newsgroups MAY be
      rejected.


-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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