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Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Sat, 28 December 1996 19:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers
To: Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 19:03:25 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
Cc: jack@wildbear.on.ca, jon@oaktree.co.uk, ietf-nntp@academ.com
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Jon Ribbens said:
> Jack De Winter wrote:
>>>>     The last article number MIGHT be less than the first article number.
>>> I don't think that MIGHT should be in capitals.
>> Can you give us a legitimate example of when the last article number
>> might be less than the first number?  If so, is this a good idea?
> If there are no articles in the group. It's as good an idea
> as any, I think.

I got that particular case from somewhere in 977 (I forget exactly where).

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