Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

[Chris Caputo <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> Chris Caputo said:
> >>       - An arrival timestamp, giving the time it arrived at the server.
> > I suggest that the concept of an arrival timestamp be replaced with
> > something that says the server is responsible for article ordering, with
> > the recommendation being that articles are ordered in the order they are
> > received.  Since the arrival timestamp is not exposed, we should not
> > require that server authors handle this issue in a specific way.
> As I said elsewhere, doesn't NEWNEWS expose the arrival timestamp ? If not,
> the timestamp is not exposed anyway; it's an arbitrary ordering of new
> articles that numbers have to be consistent against.

NEWNEWS accepts date/time as a parameter, but it should be up to the
server software to figure out how to provide the information.  The results
don't include timestamp information.

Chris Caputo
President, Altopia Corporation