ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers - draft 3

Alan Barrett apb at iafrica.com
Sat Jan 11 07:43:34 PST 1997


Jon Ribbens <jon at oaktree.co.uk> said:
> > I could be satisfied if the spec explicitly catered for master/slave
> > configurations by saying that the master must assign article numbers in
> > order of arrival, but the slave may receive articles from the master out
> > of order and clients should be able to cope with that.
> 
> You might want them to, but unfortunately they can't.

I don't see why clients "can't" deal with out-of-order arrival.  A few
days ago I explained how a client can easily deal with out-of-order
arrival.

--apb (Alan Barrett)





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