[ietf-nntp] :bytes metadata

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Ken Murchison said:
> 
>>I like the paragraph above.  How about adding something like:
>>
>>"The value MAY be greater than the number of octets in the article (the 
>>wire format size, for instance), but MUST NOT be less than the actual 
>>number of octets, as described above."
>>
>>This essentially states that :bytes is an upper (not to exceed) bound.
> 
> 
> It's different to my proposal but reaches the same end. Specific action
> would have to be taken by anyone counting CRLF as one byte, and cluster
> operators would also need to add in a fudge factor. Oh, an implementation
> that always returned 9999999999999999 would conform to your specification.
> My proposal gives both of the above cases enough fudge without allowing
> them that rope.

True.

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