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[greg andruk]

Ade Lovett <ade at lovett.com> wrote:

> On 01/03/02 17:56, "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> wrote:
>
>> greg andruk said:
>>> Agent uses it to recover missing articles on servers that
>>> add them out of order.
>> 
>> Not permitted in our standard.
>
> I'm assuming that that was a typo for 'the standard', being the short form
> for 'the standard, according to <insert cite here>'.

Darned if I know.  This draft does define backfilling as broken
behavior in 9.1, but clients are certainly allowed to check for that
behavior.