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Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Sat, 28 December 1996 20:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers
To: Jeff Coffler <jeff@taltos.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 20:24:16 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
Cc: ietf-nntp@academ.com
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Jeff Coffler said:
> I can guarentee consistent behavior
> for commands like LAST, NEXT, and ARTICLE commands (if the "current"
> article number would go out of range of my saved values, then I will
> give an appropriate response code).
> 
> Now, we can't require this (since it wasn't in the original spec, and
> since many servers today don't enforce this), but: shouldn't we recommend
> this behavior (so that, at least if recommendations are followed, NNTP
> behavior is nice and consistent across commands)?

For my next draft, I've added wording to NEXT saying:

    A server MIGHT, but SHOULD NOT return an article number greater than
    the "last" value from the most recent GROUP command for this client.

How does this look to people ?

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