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Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Sat, 28 December 1996 20:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers
To: ccaputo@alt.net
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 20:47:54 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
Cc: ietf-nntp@academ.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961227230241.15979B-100000@baklava.alt.net> from "Chris Caputo" at Dec 27, 96 11:42:53 pm
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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.

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