ietf-nntp Pat Command

[Tim Roberts]

Or should it return message-id in place of the article-nbr as XHDR does?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Roberts" <troberts at bigfoot.com>
To: <ietf-nntp at academ.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 1:19 PM
Subject: ietf-nntp Pat Command


> I was just reading the Pat command and have a question about it.
>
> If I were to send the command WITHOUT selecting a current group:
> PAT subject <messageid>
>
> The output from the server should be:
> 221 Header Follows
> article-nbr subject-line
> .
>
> The problem is - since there is no current group, there can't be any
article
> number!  What should the article number be in this case - 0?
>