[ietf-nntp] ARTICLE message-id returning article number

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Mar 18 10:00:28 PST 2004


Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> +    In the response, the article number MUST be replaced with zero,
> +    except that if there is a current selected group and the article has
> +    is in that group, the server MAY use that article number. (The server

...and the article is present in that group, the...

Or maybe you were going to say "the article has a number in that group"?

> +    is not required to determine whether the article is in the current
> +    selected newsgroup or, if so, what article number it has. The client
> +    MUST always be prepared for zero to be specified.) The server MUST
> +    NOT provide an article number unless use of that number in a second
> +    ARTICLE command immediately following this one would return the same 
> +    article. Even if the server chooses to return article numbers in
> +    these circumstances, it need not do so consistently; it MAY return
> +    zero to any such command (also see the STAT examples (Section
> +    6.2.4.3)).

Sounds good to me.

> +    If the article is specified by message-id (the first form of the
> +    command), the article number MUST be replaced with zero, except that
> +    if there is a current selected group and the article has is in that
> +    group, the server MAY use that article number (see the ARTICLE

Same problem here.

> +    If the article is specified by message-id (the first form of the
> +    command), the article number MUST be replaced with zero, except that
> +    if there is a current selected group and the article has is in that
> +    group, the server MAY use that article number (see the ARTICLE

And here.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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