ietf-nntp HDR

[Russ Allbery]

Ade Lovett <ade at lovett.com> writes:
> On 01/04/02 22:10, "Russ Allbery" <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

>> And, more to the point, the behavior of retrieving an article header
>> named Lines or Bytes is of essentially no use.

> It would be of exceptional use to clients, if it were standardized,

You may find it enlightening to go retrieve a bunch of Usenet articles and
compare the contents of the Lines header with the actual article line
count.  This experiment has been done before and the results are quite
damning.

> which is, after all, the remit of this WG.

Standardizing article headers is not within scope for this working group.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>