On 6 Nov 2010 at 17:23, StevenJ wrote:

> As it stands, the nntplib can cause the cached capabilities to be
> refreshed at certain points automatically (as it should), but I think
> it should be possible for the caller of the method to also specify
> that fresh capabilities are required and not cached ones.

I agree. I actually added a way to do this when I functioned out 
__init__, so that starttls could refresh it when required. 

It was ugly and not exposed to the caller though. 

> something like this perhaps? :
> 
> mynntp.getcapabilites(refresh=True)

My method sucked, this one doesn't. Might belong in a separate issue 
though. (I feel like a bit of a hypocrite saying that now) 

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Andrew