ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Jeff Coffler said:
> I can guarentee consistent behavior
> for commands like LAST, NEXT, and ARTICLE commands (if the "current"
> article number would go out of range of my saved values, then I will
> give an appropriate response code).
> 
> Now, we can't require this (since it wasn't in the original spec, and
> since many servers today don't enforce this), but: shouldn't we recommend
> this behavior (so that, at least if recommendations are followed, NNTP
> behavior is nice and consistent across commands)?

For my next draft, I've added wording to NEXT saying:

    A server MIGHT, but SHOULD NOT return an article number greater than
    the "last" value from the most recent GROUP command for this client.

How does this look to people ?

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