ietf-nntp Article concepts

[Russ Allbery]

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

>> I included the space in my proposed wording intentionally, since if you
>> read through the descriptions of various commands, you'll find that our
>> current standard assumes that it will always be there.  There are
>> various references to it in, for example, the OVER and HDR
>> descriptions.

>> Those descriptions could potentially be rewritten to not make that
>> assumption, but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

> Indeed. In particular, if there are two or more spaces, we currently say
> that the first one *only* is removed from the overview content. Would
> that still be the case?

I think it should be (although I think INN does something strange here
currently, I don't think that's wise or should be standardized).

I'll move all the stuff related to message IDs into a separate message.

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