ietf-nntp Proposed new HDR text

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylr8lv8f0r.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>It occurs to me here that HDR has the same problem as OVER has with
>additional headers, namely what does one do when the header occurs in the
>message more than once?

Well, respectable news headers aren't supposed to occur more than once.

But to cover it, I thing your header draft should say that if a header
occurs more than once, then you will get whichever the implementor deigns
to give you. Or you might have a special response code.

The same thing should be said in regard to the OVER command.

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