ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers - draft 3

Alan Barrett apb at iafrica.com
Sat Jan 11 07:38:46 PST 1997


> This is backfill by another name.

Yes.

> We agreed that backfill was to be forbidden,

I don't think so.  From where I sat in the meeting in San Jose, there
seemed to be a fair amount of sentiment that backfill can happen in the
configurations used today by many providers, and that clients should deal
with it. 

--apb (Alan Barrett)





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