Re: [NNTP] Advertise maximum article size in CAPABILITIES

Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:21:57 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.nntp
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
River Tarnell <[email protected]> writes:

> (Re-sending this because it didn't appear again; I know I'm subscribed 
> this time, so I think the S/MIME signature must be the problem.)

Gah.  Yes.  I'm sorry.  This is fixed now.  I was looking in the wrong
place in the list configuration.

I'e just removed all the restrictions on MIME types.  There shouldn't be
any need for that.

> I propose an extension to the NNTP protocol: a server should advertise 
> the maximum article size it is willing to accept in CAPABILITIES, via a 
> new "SIZE <nbytes>" capability.  A client should not offer any article 
> (via POST, IHAVE, CHECK or TAKETHIS) which is larger than that size.

I like this idea.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>