ietf-nntp Draft comments

[Tim Roberts]

I would think that any sorting of results on the server should be
eliminated.  Today's clients are more capable of handling the extra load for
sorting.  This provides a better balanced and more efficient use of
resources overall.

>             The output consists of one line per article, sorted in
>             numerical order of article number.
>
> I think this needs to be stated more explicitly.  For
> the standpoint of implementer, this is vague description.
> Personally, as a server side, I'm happy with unsorted,
> since I can drop sort() from the code.
> --
> Katsuhiro Kondou
>