ietf-nntp Zero-argument ARTICLE and missing articles

[Russ Allbery]

Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Hrm. I just checked my code, and I'm doing the same as what INN did.
> Are there any other servers that behave differently?

I'm betting everyone copied INN.  (I wonder if INN copied reference NNTP
here too.)  The behavior in our current draft *does* make more sense,
though, so I'd be in favor of keeping it as a bug fix.  I can't see any
real drawbacks to doing that, although I suppose if there's a client that
assumes that a 423 response means that it's seen every article in the
group, it would then have problems.

> (And are there any clients that use NEXT/LAST much?)

I'm not aware of any... I personally only use it when debugging or
demonstrating the raw NNTP protocol to someone.

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