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In article <1992Oct8.124536.28064@walter.cray.com> Ray.Moody@Cray.Com writes:
>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.

Well, actually, it wasn't that we chose not to allow it, it's that we
didn't think of it.  But I agree with you, it shouldn't be done.
I think we explicitly disallowed it in the NNTP version 2 spec, if that
ever sees the light of day.

However, we do allow 1xx messages.  The original spec isn't clear on
those, but what's supposed to happen is that a 1xx message should be
displayed to the user and then the client state machine should loop
around again.

The problem with using these for MOTD sorts of things is that because we
didn't cover it in the original spec, it would undoubtedly break some
less-than-robustly-coded software.  There is a lot of that out there.
I advise you not to use it.

I don't remember whether we made a provision for a MOTD thingy in NNTPv2
or not.  Ask Eliot.
	- Brian