ietf-nntp OVER and PAT

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Charles Lindsey said:

>> It was agreed that the matching against the wildmat(s) needed to be
>> "anchored at both ends" of the header, because that is standard wildmat
>> semantics.

> Seems fine to me (though is the header *name* stripped off or not) ?

It is stripped.

>> There should be an explicit statement that implementors need only do PAT
>> matching against the headers they choose to include in their Overviews
>> (they MAY do more, of course). So we need an extra response code, for
>> which I suggest:
>> 	521  Sorry, we don't do that header

> Also agreed.

I agree with this, yup.

>> There was also a suggestion to return an "article number" of zero when using
>> PAT with an article specified by <message-id>, rather than returning a
>> "412 no newsgroup selected" which is really a bit silly.

> That was my suggestion; the use of zero comes from ARTICLE/HEAD/BODY/STAT
> in the same situation.

And I also agree with this.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>