ietf-nntp OVER extension

[Charles Lindsey]

In <20020102104241.GA30372 at k0deZ.scriptkiddie.net> greg andruk <gja at meowing.net> writes:

>In a correct NOV implementation, only two fields (lines and references) are
>allowed to be blank.  All of the labeled fields must include labels, though
>of course there will only be text after the colon if the article contains
>some.  The one exception is that if _all_ the extension fields are blank,
>then all of the tabs following the unlabeled fields may be omitted.

Well that is not what the current draft says, nor what Clive's new text
says, because the extension fields are all labelled, so do not give rise
to trailing TABs. In fact you NEVER get a trailing TAB at all, since the
'bytes' and 'lines' fields cannot be empty (I cannot see anything in our
draft that allows lines to be empty, though it might be '0').

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