ietf-nntp Wildmats (was: draft posted)

Andrew Gierth andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk
Wed Nov 28 10:00:27 PST 2001


>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

 >> Each message-id MUST appear only once in a response.

this should be reversed.

 Charles> My question is why that "MUST appear only once in a
 Charles> response" is there.  Does any harm actually arise if it is
 Charles> repeated?

not AFAIK, and my server returns IDs more than once in the event of
crossposts.

The client can easily deal with them. The server could too, but the
server already has quite enough to deal with when handling a NEWNEWS
command.

-- 
Andrew.



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