ietf-nntp OVER extension

[Clive D. W. Feather]

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In message <ylit1y6uh4.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery 
<rra at stanford.edu> writes
>> There was a suggestion that OVER could take a message-ID. This would
>> need to be optional; to allow it, include the lines prefixed with $,
>> while to forbid it exclude those lines.
>
>Why does this need to be optional?  It's a new command; we can require
>that this be implemented.

Some people were claiming that it would be too hard to add to their 
implementations.

>>   This memo defines two metadata items: "line:count" and "byte:count".
>I'd like to see :lines and :bytes here instead.

Any particular reason? I was aiming for something that was more clearly 
not a header.

In fact, wouldn't "body:lines" and "article:bytes" be even better names?

>I think we should drop the LIST OVERVIEW.FMT command.  As discussed on
>this list rather extensively, it doesn't provide any useful information,
>and with the introduction of metadata names it just confuses things.

I'm about ready to agree with you. Any dissenters?

>>   9.5.2.1.1 Responses
>
>> $      First form (optional range specified):
>
>>           224   Overview information follows (multi-line response)
>>           412   No newsgroup currently selected
>>           423   No article(s) selected
>
>That should be 420,

Yes.

>and you're missing the 430 (no such article number)
>response here.

No, I'm missing 423 for "no articles in range". 430 is for the second 
form of the command.

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