ietf-nntp Wildmats (was: draft posted)

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Thu Nov 29 06:40:33 PST 2001


Charles Lindsey said:
> 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.

None of these proposals involve the same article ID being allocated to more
than one article, so they don't affect the meaning of NEWNEWS.

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