ietf-nntp HDR replacement text

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87d6u5mlgj.fsf at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Um. No. Not good, because it confuses the case where a header is
>missing with the case where the entire article is missing.

Er No. The purpose of the HDR command is "tell me about all the articles
in the range that contain a Foobar header". You don't expect anything to
be reported about the articles (quite likely 95% of what is available)
that do not contain a Foobar header.

So why should the special case where the range contains only one article
be singled out to be different than the rest? If you want to know whether
a particular article exists (identified by a single number or message-id),
then surely the Status command is your friend.

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