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

[Charles Lindsey]

In <20040318113146.GI33190 at finch-staff-1.thus.net> "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
>+    is not required to determine whether the article is in the current
>+    selected newsgroup or, if so, what article number it has. The client
                                                              ^^^^^
							      , the
>+    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)).

(I don't like complex sentence structures within parentheses)

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