ietf-nntp LIST OVERVIEW.FMT

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Mar 19 09:30:52 PST 2003


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

>> I personally think we should not standardize it because the contents of
>> the database can change, which means that it's very unclear to me what
>> utility the result has.  I think we have three basic options:

>> * Standardize the command as written in our draft, or omitting the option
>>   of presenting Lines and Bytes using the new metadata syntax, with the
>>   warning that it's just what's going into the database now.

[...]

> There is a fourth option:

>   * LIST OVERVIEW.FMT tells you what the overview will contain for
> articles added to the database NOW (which will likely be the same as for
> all recent additions). You then give a warning that articles received in
> the past MAY have used a different OVERVIEW.FMT. I would imagine this
> pretty well accords with what current implementations actually do.

I think that's the first option mentioned above.  Am I missing something?

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



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