ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers - draft 3

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Alan Barrett said:
>>     The server MUST ensure that article numbers are issued in order of
>>     arrival timestamp; that is, later arriving articles MUST have higher
>>     numbers than earlier arriving ones.
> This effectively declares that feeds between master and slave news servers
> (where the slaves want to use the same article numbers as the master) may
> not use any parallelism.

This is backfill by another name. We agreed that backfill was to be
forbidden, and the wording is written on that basis.

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