Re: re: FETCH command behavior

Mark Crispin <MRC@cac.washington.edu> Wed, 27 August 1997 01:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: re: FETCH command behavior
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>Feelings on the part of the other interested parties?  If we have concensus, 
>then Mark, can you take it as an editorial point to relax the wording (or 
>explicitly put in wording to allow this) in the next revision of 2060?  I'd 
>hate to decide that this was an ok thing too do and then have some client 
>implementor decide that they CAN depend on this behavior....

I think that it is reasonable to assume that a client would not depend
upon the server not working.  ;-)