Re: ietf-nntp New draft available

["Clive D.W. Feather" <[e-mail]>]

Stan Barber said:
>> Section 4 page 3: surely there MUST be only one GREETING step as well;
>> there is no way to repeat it.
> That's not what INN does. Try entering "mode reader" and you will see
> a new greeting.

A new greeting, but not a new GREETING step, not in the terms you define.

>> Section 10.4.9 page 25: can an empty list be returned ?
> Good question. What does everyone think? I have not seen this behavior myself.
> The implementations I am familiar with have a default set of overview
> information that it will create if overview.fmt is null. They will even
> collect it directly from the article if there is no overview database.

I wasn't thinking of that, but what happens if no articles match the range
or whatever requested.

>> Section 12.4 page 28: change "6 digits" to "6 or 8 digits". Change the last
>> sentence of the same paragraph to:
>>     If the first two digits of the year are not specified, the year is
>>     taken to be in the range 1951 to 2050 inclusive.
> 
> I agree with the first change. Why the second one? Is there something
> unclear about the text as written? If so, please be more specific about
> this.

It seems a lot simpler than the wording you had, that's all; why bother
with all this "closest century" stuff ? And it handles the case of 50
better. But in fact, I'd change the range to be 1981 to 2080, or something
like that.

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