On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 02:14:16 -0500, mark lewis wrote:   
      
    ml> KDE's news reader... both are obviously not written to the RFC properly   
    ml> if they are issuing MODE READER without first ensuring that MODE-READER   
    ml> is available in the CAPABILITIES of the news server... especially if the   
    ml> news server is not a switching server as described by the RFC...   
      
   I was actually looking at what it would take to implement compression   
   support and noticed CAPABILITIES is required per the RFC.  Ultimately,   
   I decided compression is of little value on the fidonet side.  If we   
   were updating thousands of headers a day it might be worth it.  But I   
   did implement "CAPABILITIES" in the fork I am working on.  It is just   
   not exposed to the internet yet.   
      
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    * Origin: The Byte Museum - news: news.bytemuseum.org (1:19/10)