ietf-nntp Article concepts

[Matthias Andree]

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

> Matthias Andree said:
>> NNTP isn't getting
>> anywhere close to resolving multiple-message-id conflicts and allowing
>> for articles without message-id and introducing the <0> special case
>> adds asymmetries, because articles without message-id can then only
>> be retrieved by their number in the respective group, but not by
>> message-id,
>
> Yes, but 977 allowed for that already.

Would getting rid of this "no-message-id" articles do any harm other
than depriving NNTP of the feature of routing malformatted articles?

>> and they don't show in LISTGROUP replies.
>
> Do you mean NEWNEWS? If not, why LISTGROUP?

My fault, yes, I do mean NEWNEWS (Message-ID) rather than LISTGROUP
(article number).

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Matthias Andree