[NNTP] Re: Nearly there

[Thomas Gschwind]

Hi all!

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:51:59PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > - wording above to be added;
> > - either:
> >   - article number limit left unchanged at 2^32-1
> >   - article number limit changed to 2^31-1.
> >
> > But which? I still prefer the change, as it better represents what servers
> > can rely on the client understanding.
> 
> The realistic limit is 2^31-1.  It's much more important to document the
> current situation realistically than to start making improvements at
> this stage.

Putting in 2^31-1 is fine with me especially considering our charter.

However, I am also very much in favor of putting in a paragraph stating
that RFC977 did not specify a limit and that there are news servers that
will generate article numbers larger then that (especially considering
that some newsgroups may run out of numbers soon) and that clients
SHOULD be able to handle numbers larger then that limit.  IMHO, we
cannot suddendly make those compliant news servers non-compliant.

Thomas
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