Re: ietf-nntp Backfill

Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org> Fri, 13 December 1996 19:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp Backfill
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Jon Ribbens wrote a very nice note.  Article numbers should be considered
unique resources, never to be re-used unless there is a "change in epoch"
which requires out-of-band coordination between client and server.