[ietf-nntp] :bytes metadata
Charles Lindsey
chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Fri Feb 6 04:12:59 PST 2004
In <40225921.2020205 at oceana.com> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
>Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>>> Perhaps. It feels wrong to me to have these under-specified features, given
>> that we've made changes from historical practice (calling it ":bytes", for
>> example). But it looks like I'm alone on this.
>No, you're not alone. I don't like having fuzzy specs either. The
>problem is that the audience/participation on this list is really small,
>and seems to only contains server authors. I think an issue like this
>needs to be fed to a larger audience, like the newsgroups, and hopefully
>we'll get some input from client authors.
Me2. I am unhappy that different servers can return different sizes for
the identical article. But I don't see an obvious way out.
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