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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