ietf-nntp HDR

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
>> Incidentally, what's wrong with making the range optional and having it
>> return data for the current article ? This would require a 420 code to
>> be added.
> Not existing practice, mainly.  I don't see where this would be
> particularly useful.

Since this command is new invention, it would make it consistent with
ARTICLE and with OVER (I don't see why it's useful with OVER either, but
people provide it).

>> However, now I think some more, I recall something. Did we say that this
>> command could work for any header ? Or is it intended to work from the
>> overview database ?
> 
> Ideally, it should work with any header.
> 
> The current text also says nothing about what the server should do if one
> attempts to grab headers that aren't in overview and one supports only an
> overview implementation.  Hm.  I thought we already talked about this, but
> I don't remember what we decided.  Does anyone else?

No, but this is the issue I was trying to raise.

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