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Peter Robinson
pmrobinson at gmx.net
Mon Apr 25 15:48:46 PDT 2005
Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > But it would make more practical sense for it to be the first article in
> > the range. Surely this is easily arranged, given the need to do some
> > implementation work for this anyway.
>
> The worry that I have about doing this is that it makes it look like the
> current article pointer should also stop at the end of the range,
I don't share that particular worry. In GROUP, the article pointer
doesn't 'stop at the end' of the reported high water mark if more
articles arrive.
> and *that* is both unusual and possibly a pain to implement given that
> it's a concept not previously found in the protocol.
I do share that concern.
[...]
> I'm not particularly enamored of this idea. Very little uses the current
> article pointer in practice these days, and this adds some complexity to
> the description without a lot of benefit.
That (scrapping this idea) is fine with me as long as we're clear about
it in the spec.
Regards,
Peter
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