[NNTP] Article Numbers Becoming Invalid (RFC 3977)
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at davros.org
Wed Dec 30 04:06:12 PST 2009
Julien LIE said:
> What INN does is that after GROUP, the article number is set to the low
> water mark. It is what is considered to be the first article in the group
> (allowing a possible reinstatement).
This is wrong.
When a valid group is selected by means of this command, the
currently selected newsgroup MUST be set to that group, and the
current article number MUST be set to the first article in the group
Note that it does *not* say "the reported low water mark".
> If the group is empty, the new current article number is still invalid
> (because it does not exist).
Correct.
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