ietf-nntp OVER and HDR parameter comments

[Russ Allbery]

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> writes:

> My past experience with leafnode and Perl scripts that partially pull
> those "control.cancel" newsgroups in reader mode say that INN at some
> time seemed to be much faster when XHDR requested headers that were in
> LIST OVERVIEW.FMT, and slower for headers outside the overview.

Yup, that's correct.  INN answers XHDR requests out of overview where
possible, since it's considerably faster.

> Please skip this paragraph if the current draft already provides this
> info: 1. as long as the return code for "the administrator prohibits you
> to use HDR for this header" is distinct from "HDR not implemented",
> that's fine with me.

Yup, that's in there.

> 2. I'd also appreciate if there was a clear note on whether the
> canonical syntax is HDR Message-ID <range> or HDR Message-ID: <range>
> (mind the trailing colon).

The current draft is explicit about that (no colon).

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