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Re: ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Mon, 16 December 1996 06:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF
To: Stan Barber <sob@academ.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 01:57:51 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
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In-Reply-To: <199612152343.RAA19647@academ.com> from "Stan Barber" at Dec 15, 96 05:43:56 pm
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Stan Barber said:
>> 2. There is no clarification of RFC977 concerning article numbers. There are
>> some implementations that will backfill missing article numbers. The group 
>> seems to think that article numbers should never backfill unless there is 
>> some kind of "reset" event. However, XXX from Demon Internet will author some
>> proposed text to address backfilling.
> XXX is Clive D.W. Feather. My apologies for not filling that in before
> I posted it.

No problem. However, I thought (and I have) I was writing up a description
of the issues involved. I'm quite happy to write up replacement wording on
the topic of backfilling, but first I need to know what the consensus is.
So far we've heard from the client authors; what about the server authors ?

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