ietf-nntp new draft of the NNTP spec released

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Sun Jun 27 13:38:37 PDT 1999


I have fixed the draft to correct for this inconsistency.

Jim Beebe wrote:
> 
> Stan,
> 
> There is an inconsistency in the new draft spec.
> 
> Section 9.2 says:
>             There are two forms to the ARTICLE command (and the related
>             BODY, HEAD, and STAT commands)...  In the cases where the
>             argument is a message-id, the article number specified in the
>             response must be zero.
> 
> but in the examples, the response shows:
>             Example of a successful retrieval of an article by message-id
> 
>                     [S] 200 NNTP Service Ready
> 
>                     [C] ARTICLE <45223423 at to.to>
> 
>                     [S] 220 3000234 <45223423 at to.to>
> 
> This is from 9.2.1.2, but 9.2.2.2, 9.2.3.2, and 9.2.4.2 are similar, with
> the first response parameter showing a non-zero article number.
> 
> Jim Beebe



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