ietf-nntp Update to base spec posted

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Wed Mar 7 01:13:20 PST 2001


Charles Lindsey said:
> But you STILL have not changed Section 5 (Wildmats).

See other email.

> However, in 7.2:
> 
>             Servers are encouraged to not require this command even though
>                                    ^^^^^^
> 				   not to
> (split infinitive :-( )

So what ? [Anyone want the full 5 minute rant on this ?]

>           9.5.3.1 HDR
> 
>             HDR range|<message-id>
> 	       ^
> 	       header

Ah. I did wonder why the syntax and text seemed to disagree.

> Why does there have to be a currently selected group in the case where the
> article is specified by <message-id>?
[...]

I've asked some of these in a separate thread. Could we discuss them there ?

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