[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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