ietf-nntp Articles without message IDs

[Charles Lindsey]

In <yly92v5haw.fsf_-_ at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>The two alternatives as I see it are:

> 1. Go with Clive's text, quoted below, which says that articles SHOULD
>    have message IDs but reserves <0> for places where the protocol has
>    to indicate a message ID for an article that doesn't have one.  State
>    that <0> is not a valid message ID (which immediately takes care of
>    making it invalid to offer such an article via IHAVE) and note that
>    such articles are not returned by NEWNEWS.

> 2. State that articles MUST have message IDs, but add a special exception
>    to the text of POST saying that articles offered via POST need not
>    have a message ID, but that in that case one will be added by the
>    server.  Note at the beginning of the document this difference from
>    RFC 977.

I prefer #2.

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