[ietf-nntp] Fwd: New NNTP standard in Working Group Last Call

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Tue Mar 9 07:58:19 PST 2004


Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Russ Allbery said:
> 
>>Some minor comments from news.software.nntp.
> 
> 
> I'll also answer in the group.
> 
> 
>>8.4  'case sensistive'
>>-> 'case-sensitive'
> 
> 
> It doesn't matter how much you try, there's always one slips through.
> 
> 
>>8.4.1  'and not including either the "." CRLF terminating the response nor
>>any "." added for "byte-stuffing" purposes'
>>-> The meaning is clear, but is "not ... either ... nor any" OK? (I would
>>use 'or' in stead of 'nor' there.)
> 
> 
> This led me to think. I don't want to say "and includes neither the [dot
> CRLF] nor any [stuffing dot]" because I think it will be misunderstood. On
> the other hand, changing the "nor" to "or" didn't look quite right to me.

I tend to agree with Dr. Ruud.  I think this should read either:

"... not including ... or ..."

or

"... including neither ... nor ..."


(My preference would be the latter).

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