ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers - draft 3

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Simon Lyall <simon at darkmere.gen.nz> writes
>>     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. The server SHOULD allocate the first
>>     unused number to each new article.
>Recently a couple of proposals have been made as to what might be 
>included in an updated RFC1036 document. One of the ideas by Brad 
>Templeton was for:
>|        "Replaces" header.
>Obviously the best way to impliment the header would for such an article 
>to physically replace the parent in the spool (on systems such as INN). 
>
>However this would appear to go against the proposed text, do people feel 
>that this is a situation that needs a adjustment of wording? 

Such an article would have the same article number, and NEWNEWS wouldn't
return it for timestamps since that of the replaced article, so it is,
in effect, the same article; the wording can be treated as not applying
to it.

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