[NNTP] Re: New NNTP drafts approaching IETF Last Call

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Thu Mar 24 09:04:37 PST 2005


Charles Lindsey said:
>>> However, the wording in the present draft is slightly misleading, since it
>>> seems to suggest that the arbitrary mixture of octets might contain NUL or
>>> naked CR or LF. So perhaps the second sentence would better say:
> 
>> It doesn't need anything saying. This paragraph is a NOTE. The normative
>> text is item 1 of the numbered list immediately before it.
> 
> Sure, but even NOTEs have to be well written. Clearly, Mark DID
> misunderstand it. Therefore there MIGHT be some benefit in considering
> alternative wordings.

I still think it's unneeded, but I've added "(subject to that same
requirement)" before "it MAY include octets above and below 128 mixed
arbitrarily".

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