[ietf-nntp] :bytes metadata

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> What I've currently got, *knowing* that it's insufficient, is:
> 
>     The :bytes metadata item for an article is a decimal integer.  It
>     SHOULD equal the number of octets in the entire article - headers,
>     body, and separating empty line (counting a CRLF pair as two octets,
>     and not including either the "." CRLF terminating the response nor
>     any "." added for "byte-stuffing" purposes).

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.

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