ietf-nntp Wildmats (was: draft posted)

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87adx6ixms.fsf at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:


>>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> >> Each message-id MUST appear only once in a response.

>this should be reversed.


>The client can easily deal with them. The server could too, but the
>server already has quite enough to deal with when handling a NEWNEWS
>command.

Then I think we need "MAY appear more than once".

To answer Stan's point, there should be no special semantics attached.
It's just a duplicate which the client has to ignore somehow.

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