ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers - draft 3

[Jack De Winter]

>Master/Slave servers are also presented as a single DNS entry
>by many large NNTP sites.   In this situation it's important that the
>slaves do their best to appear identical.  This is done so that the site
>can support a very large number of clients with only one internet
'presence'. 
>Logic which conceals part of the available article numbers until 
>the entire space is contiguous would pose two problems for such a site : 

As I mentioned before, if you explain the process that you do right now
to mirror the sites, perhaps we can gain a better understanding of
your position, and this, help everyone to find a way that works for
everyone.

regards,
Jack

p.s. I am primarily wondering how some of the items that have been
     discussed could come up in a slave situation... unless you are
     running multiple threads in the same group getting articles from
     the master...
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