ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers - draft 3

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Ade Lovett <ade at lovett.com> writes
>I would suggest that discussion about replicated feeds, for those sites
>that require a single-point-of-nntp-contact using multiple machines,
>be taken offline, or separated from the issues to hand, where we can
>work from the basis of 977bis, and then develop a (possibly entirely
>new) protocol, based on NNTP, for master-slave replication.

Indeed. As has been suggested elsewhere, it seems like a small extension
to NNTP would do it, without upsetting clients at all.

>There are, of course, always alternate ways around providing large-scale
>nntp solutions, which don't involve multiple replication, but Clive would
>probably be nasty to me if I mentioned them here :)

*Very* nasty.

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