ietf-nntp HDR replacement text

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Andrew Gierth said:
>  Russ>   An empty response
>  Russ>   is therefore valid, indicating that the requested header is
>  Russ>   not present in any of the specified articles.
> Um. No. Not good, because it confuses the case where a header is
> missing with the case where the entire article is missing.

Hmm. If we consider that significant (and I don't see why not), then why not
something like this:

    1234 header value              header present and non-empty
    1234                           header present but empty
    1234-                          article has no such header

with the absence of a "1234" line indicating that there's no article 1234.

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