[NNTP] Re: Nearly there

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Aug 10 14:38:54 PDT 2006


Ken Murchison <murch at andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> "Note that it is likely that the article number limit of [4,294,967,295]
> will be increased by a future revision or extension to this
> specification.  While servers MUST NOT send article numbers greater than
> this current limit, client and server developers are advised to use
> internal structures and datatypes capable of handling larger values in
> anticipation of such a change."

That seems better to me.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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