ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Sun Dec 15 17:57:51 PST 1996


Stan Barber said:
>> 2. There is no clarification of RFC977 concerning article numbers. There are
>> some implementations that will backfill missing article numbers. The group 
>> seems to think that article numbers should never backfill unless there is 
>> some kind of "reset" event. However, XXX from Demon Internet will author some
>> proposed text to address backfilling.
> XXX is Clive D.W. Feather. My apologies for not filling that in before
> I posted it.

No problem. However, I thought (and I have) I was writing up a description
of the issues involved. I'm quite happy to write up replacement wording on
the topic of backfilling, but first I need to know what the consensus is.
So far we've heard from the client authors; what about the server authors ?

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