ietf-nntp OVER extension

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> That's what I had in mind. Um:

>   The byte:count metadata item for an article is a decimal integer. 
>   It MUST equal the number of bytes in the entire article - headers, body,
>   and separating blank line - except that the US-ASCII CRLF at the end
>   of each line MAY (but SHOULD NOT) be counted as a single byte.

As I understand it, MAY conflicts with SHOULD NOT; you can't have it both
ways.  Maybe what you're trying to say is that the client SHOULD allow for
the possibility but the server SHOULD NOT count CRLF as a single byte?

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