[issue16040] nntplib: unlimited readline() from connection

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment:

On Sep 30, 2013, at 09:43 PM, Jyrki Pulliainen wrote:

>I also wonder if there should be data error risen instead? Current docstrings
>of the errors are not that well fit.

I guess a data error makes the least nonsense here, so I'll change it over to
that.  I'm happy to entertain other thoughts (except for introducing a new
exception of course) before 2.6.9 final.

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