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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: "maybe-I-have" (Re: Lots of dups)
Message-ID: <10083@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 30 Oct 89 03:27:05 GMT
References: <1989Oct25.164024.14894@ctr.columbia.edu> <FLEE.89Oct27152212@shire.cs.psu.edu> <1989Oct28.054059.5030@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <FLEE.89Oct28192849@shire.cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
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The 436 response code is intended to signify a failure to post the
instant article.  It does NOT imply complete news system failure; a 5xx
code should be used for that.  If you have a temporary failure (such as
running out of disk space) and someone attempts to send you an article,
you can 436 it (assuming that he'll send it again later) and then
continue, or if you're going to give up, 400 it and close the
connection.

I thought the current version of nntpxmit requeued articles that were
4xx'd.  Maybe I read the code wrong.
	- Brian