🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1aebjiINN1q2@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>, Alan P Barrett writes:

>The protocol already allows this.
>
>200 foo.bar.edu NNTP server ready, posting is permitted
>200-I see that the "in-addr.arpa" records for your site are wrong.
>200-Please ask your network administrator to fix them within 7 days,
>200-or you will be denied access to this server.
>200-
>200-As from 1 April 1995, this server will no longer carry the baz.*
>200-hierarchy.  If you don't like this policy, moan at
>200-bigboss@admin.bar.edu.

As Rich Salz points out, the traditional use of dashes is on all but
the last line.  But that isn't what is important here.

RFC 977 doesn't say anything about multiple line replies at all.  The
protocol does *not* allow this.  This is actually a good choice by the
developers.  NNTP is different from other internet services in that
certain parameters must be parsed out of a reply line.  For example:

	 211 104 10011 10125 net.unix-wizards group selected
	 223 1013 <5734@mcvax.UUCP> Article retrieved; text separate.

Allowing lines to be continued would unnecessarily confuse the parsing
issue.

								Ray