ietf-nntp Wildmats (was: draft posted)

[Stan Barber]

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>My question is why that "MUST appear only once in a response" is there.
>Does any harm actually arise if it is repeated? The worst that can happen
>is that the (sucking) client fails to notice that it has already asked for
>this article once before, asks for it again, and then finds it doesn't
>need it after all. A little inefficient, perhaps, but nothing actually
>breaks.
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>The reason I raise it is that the USEFOR group has been discussing various
>schemes for allowing groups of related articles (such as regularly posted
>FAQs) such that one unchanging ID could be used to retrieve the "latest"
>in the series. In the event, USEFOR is not proceeding with such schemes,
>but they remain a possibility for a future extension. And, in some
>versions of these schemes, a given ID might, occasionally, have appeared
>twice in a NEWNEWS list.

We can define it either way. I think if we allow repeats we need to be 
clear in the text what a repeat means. From the comments so far, it just 
means that it was repeated in the list. There is no special meaning to a 
repeat beyond that. It does not mean anything related to cross-posting or 
the "lastest in a FAQ" idea that I am quoting here. If we stick with what 
is currently written, then there is no need to explain the meaning of a repeat.