ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Sat Dec 28 11:03:25 PST 1996


Jon Ribbens said:
> Jack De Winter wrote:
>>>>     The last article number MIGHT be less than the first article number.
>>> I don't think that MIGHT should be in capitals.
>> Can you give us a legitimate example of when the last article number
>> might be less than the first number?  If so, is this a good idea?
> If there are no articles in the group. It's as good an idea
> as any, I think.

I got that particular case from somewhere in 977 (I forget exactly where).

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