ietf-nntp Article concepts

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Tue Mar 25 03:58:33 PST 2003


Bill McQuillan said:
>>   Each article SHOULD have a message-id.  Two articles processed by
>>   an NNTP server MUST NOT have the same message-id.  Note that RFC
> I am not happy with the word "processed" here. In fact, isn't the action of
> discovering that an article has the same message-id as another and should
> be dropped called "processing"?
> 
> Perhaps "accepted" or "forwarded" would be better.

"offered", since the issue is in relation to ARTICLE etc., not to the
internal handling of the news system.

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