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Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Sat, 28 December 1996 20:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers
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From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
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John Line (hi, John) said:
> The server should never reuse an article number. The GROUP command, however,
> is providing an indication of the range of articles which is currently 
> available, and that may quite legitimately be smaller due to cancellation.
[...]
> I've just confirmed that the INN 1.4unoff4 and 1.5 GROUP command shows the
> highest available article number, not the highest that has existed prior to
> cancellation. It is therefore the way (some widely used) current server
> software behaves, and readers don't seem to have any problems with it, and the
> wording should therefore not exclude that implementation.

I've changed the wording accordingly.

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