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Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

Brian Kantor <brian@nothing.ucsd.edu> Sat, 28 December 1996 18:34 UTC

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From: Brian Kantor <brian@nothing.ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers
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>Actually, I think I prefer the last<first method.

That is what B-news (and, if memory serves, C-news) used to do, so
that's what NNTP running on top them did.  I think INN should have done
it as well, although setting last=first=articles=0 seems not to hurt
anything.
	- Brian

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