ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

[Jack De Winter]

At 06:16 PM 12/28/96 +0000, Jon Ribbens wrote:
>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. The first and last aritcle numbers being
>equal indicates that there is one article in the group.
>(Although INN sets last=first=articles=0 if the group is
>empty. Actually, I think I prefer the last<first method.
>I don't know what deployed clients do though.)

In that case, could we perhaps make a rule that the last
article number is not less than the first article number,
except in the case of an empty newsgroup, where the last
article number will be one less than the first article
number? you know, handle the exception and code for the
rule?

regards,
Jack
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