[NNTP] Article references

[Russ Allbery]

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

> Wording attempt two:
> I propose modifying section 6 as follows:

>    News reading clients have available a variety of mechanisms to
>    retrieve articles via NNTP.  The news articles are stored and indexed
>    using three types of keys.  One key is the message-id of an article.
>    Another key is composed of the newsgroup name and the article number
>    within that newsgroup.  That key MUST be unique to a particular
>    server (there will be only one article with that number within a
>    particular newsgroup), but is not required to be globally unique.
>    Additionally, because the same article can be cross-posted to
>    multiple newsgroups, there may be multiple keys that point to the
> -  same article on the same server.  The final key is the arrival
> +  same article on the same server; nevertheless, a given article
> +  MUST NOT have two different article numbers in any particular
> +  newsgroup on a particular server. The final key is the arrival
>    timestamp, giving the time that the article arrived at the server.

I'm also fine with this.

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