[NNTP] Article references

[Russ Allbery]

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

> Article <abc at xyz> arrives. The server makes it article 123 in alt.test.
> What stops the server *also* making it 124 in alt.test?

I hadn't thought about that angle.  (Although we're getting into outlawing
insane behavior that no one is likely to do in practice, which can be a
bit of a waste of time.)

> The purpose of the proposed wording change is to fix this. Clearly it
> isn't clear.

The new wording works great for me; it even solves another problem as
well.  :)

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