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Re: ietf-nntp Comments on the draft

Stan Barber <sob@academ.com> Thu, 03 October 1996 21:55 UTC

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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.

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