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Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk> Sat, 28 December 1996 18:19 UTC

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From: Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers
To: Jack De Winter <jack@wildbear.on.ca>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 18:16:47 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: jon@oaktree.co.uk, clive@demon.net, ietf-nntp@academ.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961228125710.00f22630@lacroix> from "Jack De Winter" at Dec 28, 96 12:57:10 pm
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Jack De Winter wrote:
> >>     The last article number MIGHT be less than the first article number.
> >
> >I don't think that MIGHT should be in capitals.
> 
> Can you give us a legitimate example of when the last article number
> might be less than the first number?  If so, is this a good idea?

If there are no articles in the group. It's as good an idea
as any, I think. The first and last aritcle numbers being
equal indicates that there is one article in the group.
(Although INN sets last=first=articles=0 if the group is
empty. Actually, I think I prefer the last<first method.
I don't know what deployed clients do though.)

Cheers


Jon
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