[ietf-nntp] :bytes metadata

[Charles Lindsey]

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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