[NNTP] Re: Fwd: Last Call: 'Network News Transfer Protocol' to Proposed Standard

[Russ Allbery]

Erik Warmelink <erik at flits102-126.flits.rug.nl> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> The IESG has received a request from the NNTP Extensions WG to consider the 
>> following document:
>> 
>> - 'Network News Transfer Protocol '
>>    <draft-ietf-nntpext-base-26.txt> as a Proposed Standard

> If I understand the semantics of "ARTICLE" correctly, on page 50,
> under "Example of a successful retrieval of an article by message-id:"
> one would expect:

>        [C] ARTICLE <45223423 at example.com>
>        [S] 220 0 <45223423 at example.com>
>        [S] Path: pathost!demo!whitehouse!not-for-mail
>        [S] From: "Demo User" <nobody at example.net>
>        [S] Newsgroups: misc.test
>        [S] Subject: I am just a test article
>        [S] Date: 6 Oct 1998 04:38:40 -0500
>        [S] Organization: An Example Net, Uncertain, Texas
> -      [S] Message-ID: <411 at example.net>
> +      [S] Message-ID: <45223423 at example.net>
>        [S]
>        [S] This is just a test article.
>        [S] .

Yes, that's confusing even if it's intended to be an intentional example
of how NNTP doesn't necessarily care about the body of the article.  I'll
forward this along to the working group.

Thanks!

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