[NNTP] LISTGROUP

[Charles Lindsey]

In <871x8xpego.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:

>> A. Assuming 5-1 is not an error, then the effect of
>>    LISTGROUP groupname 5-1
>> MUST be identical to the effect of
>>    LISTGROUP groupname.

>Er.  That's a completely different behavior than anyone has noted in
>practice or asked for before.  Did you mean GROUP groupname in your second
>example there?

Oops! That was obviously wrong. Forget it. Property B gives the important
requirement.

>> B. Given that the reported High and Low watermarks are known, then the
>> effect of
>>    LISTGROUP groupname Low-High
>> MUST be identical to the effect of
>>    LISTGROUP groupname
>> even when the group is empty, which implies that 5-1 means an emtpy range,
>> rather than an error.

>> I would still prefer it to be set to the first article of the returned
>> list (if non-empty), but will defer to the majority view. BUT, if the
>> returned list is emtpy, then it would still have to select the firsrt
>> article in the group in order to preserve those two properties.

>Right.

OK, so include that feature or not as people wish.

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