ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers
Brian Kantor
brian at nothing.ucsd.edu
Mon Dec 30 13:28:03 PST 1996
>I agree that the lo number should never be larger than the high
>number. No servers produce this situation and no clients are ready to
>handle it.
I believe you'll find that most clients which are derived from
direct-reading (i.e., non-NNTP) are indeed able to cope with it,
as B-news behaved in precisely this way.
I note that the current 'reference NNTP' server returns zeros for both
low and high numbers when a GROUP command selects an empty group. I
seem to recall that it did not always do so. Perhaps Erik or Stan can clarify.
- Brian
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