Re: ietf-nntp Backfill

Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org> Tue, 17 December 1996 01:35 UTC

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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp Backfill
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I believe that everyone "just knew" that article numbers were just
monotonically increasing.  If this is no longer clear to implementors,
then the RFC must be fixed.
	/r$