ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Chris Caputo said:
>>       - An arrival timestamp, giving the time it arrived at the server.
> I suggest that the concept of an arrival timestamp be replaced with
> something that says the server is responsible for article ordering, with
> the recommendation being that articles are ordered in the order they are
> received.  Since the arrival timestamp is not exposed, we should not
> require that server authors handle this issue in a specific way.

As I said elsewhere, doesn't NEWNEWS expose the arrival timestamp ? If not,
the timestamp is not exposed anyway; it's an arbitrary ordering of new
articles that numbers have to be consistent against.

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