Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.toronto.edu!ietf-nntp-distribution-owner Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 13:30:10 -0400 From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Original-To: ietf-nntp@turbo.bio.net, Rich Salz Subject: Re: July IETF Meeting References: <9106241357.AA09123@litchi.bbn.com> References: <9106241357.AA09123@litchi.bbn.com> Newsgroups: list.ietf-nntp Distribution: list Sender: list-admin@cs.toronto.edu Approved: list.ietf-nntp@mail.cs.toronto.edu Lines: 20 Rich, reader additions to the protocol are on hold until we see just how far we can get on an NNRP. I don't have any particular objections to the MODE command, other than that the default MODE needs to handle the old functionality. Among other things it would not require an additional port assignment. However, I am far more interested in what the reader MODE/protocol would look like, than how to get to it, at this point. Stan likes the idea of the OPTION command. As long as you can lump all the options together, I won't object, either. Brian's suggestion was to flush the OPTION command. Again, I'm in mid-rewrite so hang in there for just a bit longer... Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]