[NNTP] Article ranges

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Tue Mar 8 00:52:29 PST 2005


Russ Allbery said:
> I see that our current draft, following RFC 2980, only allows nnn-nnn and
> nnn- as ranges.

> INN also supports -nnn and -.  Should we mention anything at all about
> this in the draft, or just stick with what we have?  My inclination is to
> stay with what we have,

Yes. We don't know that other servers do it, it's trivial to work around
the lack of it, and it's a functional change at a very late date. Don't do
it.

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