[ietf-nntp] OVER message-id

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> Andrew's cluster has an additional problem that Xref data isn't
>> actually stored in the article, so he simply doesn't have any good way
>> of answering an OVER Xref request by message ID.  This is, I believe,
>> somewhat unique to his software and is not typical of most server
>> designs, but I could be wrong.  I don't have a lot of familiarity with
>> how Xref works across servers.

> But this I do not understand. If Andrew is prepared to serve up the
> complete article (or even just its HEADers) given the message-id, then
> he is surely obliged to serve up an Xref header with it (for how else
> does the client know how to mark all the crossposted articles as read
> when he has read the first one)?

I don't see anything in the protocol that requires this.

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