Re: ietf-nntp Issues with new draft

Stan Barber <sob@academ.com> Thu, 04 September 1997 15:29 UTC

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From: Stan Barber <sob@academ.com>
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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp Issues with new draft
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Nat, 

The x8x response codes were always intended to be used by non-standard 
extensions. It makes no sense to continue to use them for something
that will now be a standard extension. If we are going to use the x8x for
authentication and identification, we can't use them for non-standard
extensions.



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