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

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Thu May 26 02:38:39 PDT 2005


Russ Allbery said:
>> 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.

Blast. It's legal (see 6.3.2.3 and A.2) but this is not the place to
expound it.

I'll fix this example and the related ones, and add an example to A.2.

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