ietf-nntp OVER extension

[Clive D. W. Feather]

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In message <ylhejfh1qp.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery 
<rra at stanford.edu> writes
>>   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?

Yes, but see my comment to Andrew.

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