[NNTP] Article number wording

[Russ Allbery]

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> writes:

> I strongly object, and I expect that the better part of the
> implementations won't follow this.

> I understand that putting up arbitrary limits is tricky as the limit
> might be chosen too low, but article numbers are THE primary index -
> introducing arbitrary length integers here is going to hurt big time -
> implementors and execution speed.

What do you think of an explicit 64-bit limit?

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