ietf-nntp Re: draft-ballou-nntpsrch-03.txt

[Nat Ballou]

Kenneth,

I have removed the 421 response code and use an
empty response.  This new draft will be posted
when I gather up a few more revisions.

I would like to get others comments on your XOVER
suggestion - what do others on the mailing list
think about this suggestion?

Nat

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> From: Kenneth M. Sternberg <elf at spry.com>
> To: natba at microsoft.com
> Subject: draft-ballou-nntpsrch-03.txt
> Date: Thursday, May 29, 1997 2:33 PM
> 
> 
> 	I have been reading up on all the latest developments in NNTP and
> I was fascinated by the above draft.  However, in reading it I came
across
> a specified behavior that is not consistent with RFC 977 and most modern
> implementations as covered in draft-barber-nntp-imp-07.txt.  
> 
> 	Under section 5.1 you state that "A response of 421 indicates that
> there are no articles that match the search criteria."  However, popular
> implementations documented in Barber (2.1.6, et. al.) specify that "If
> nothing is matched an empty list is returned, not an error."  Writers of
> clients would probably prefer to receive a consistent behavior overall.
> 
> 	I'm also concerned about the response of a SEARCH OVER command.
> Since some articles could have enormous cross-postings it might be
> preferable just to return the Message-ID.  The newsgroup is just meta-
> information about the article, not a unique key to it, after all.
> 
> 	Elf
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