ietf-nntp OVER extension

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
> Personally, I think existing practice is wrong, and since we're creating
> something new, we can fix it.  The byte count should, so far as possible,
> match the number of octets transferred on the wire when the article is
> downloaded IMO (although it's arguable whether it should include the extra
> dot from dot stuffing).

Apart from any other definition, I think it shouldn't include dot stuffing;
that's a transport issue, not an article metadata issue.

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