ietf-nntp <0> and message IDs

[Russ Allbery]

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

> How about this (also applies Russ's note)?

>    This specification does not describe how the message-id of an article
>    is determined (if the server is also conforming to another
>    specification that contains a definition of message-id compatible
>    with this one, the server SHOULD use those message-ids). Many servers
>    will extract the message-id from the contents of a header with name
>    "Message-ID", but this is not required by this document. In
>    particular, if the article does not contain such a header, the server
>    MUST synthesise a message-id (it need not modify the article to add
>    such a header unless required to by another specification).

> I've said "SHOULD" because it's not actually an interoperability
> requirement for NNTP.

Sounds good to me.

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