[NNTP] Article number wording

Ruud H.G. van Tol rvtol at isolution.nl
Fri Jul 29 12:49:42 PDT 2005


Russ Allbery:

> [article numbers, limits]
> 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.

I would just mention in a side-note that in 2005 it is no longer good to
have a limit in the software that is less than 2^64, and that any limit
will be proven too small some time.

-- 
Grtz, Ruud




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