[NNTP] Article number wording

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Walker <nntp at nntpserver.com> writes:

> The problem is that the current draft has addressed the issue.  It says
> 32 bit numbers and no roll over.  If you wish to leave it open as 977
> did, you need to remove the current text on the matter.

It's not acceptable to leave it unspecified.  RFC 977 was deficient in
this regard.  Whatever we do, we have to be clear and specific about it;
that's the whole point of a standard.

> The very old unix clients are not normally used on modern binary
> servers.

We're not talking about old Unix clients.  The example I gave was from
slrn.

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