Re: ietf-nntp Comments on the draft

"chris (c.) lewis" <clewis@nortel.ca> Thu, 10 October 1996 22:43 UTC

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In article <199610032152.QAA21701@academ.com>om>,  <sob@academ.com> wrote:
>The middle number 5 was chosen to avoid overloading the middle numer 8, which
>is reserved for local extension use.

>We could reverse and choose 8 to be for authentication and use 5 for local
>extension use. However, having 8 overloaded is a bad idea.

I thought we were supposed to be documenting existing practise rather
than inventing new ones.
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