From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 23:57:21 CDT
On 4/23/01 11:45 PM, Russ Allbery at <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> I don't understand your logic here. Two SHOULDs are equivalent to one
> SHOULD in determining conformance. I don't believe a conforming
> implementation should be permitted to return invalid Xref information, at
> least to the extent of ensuring that the newsgroup and article number
> information is accurate (I don't care about the path portion). Invalid
> Xref information breaks clients.
Speaking of Xref...the biggest problem I see is servers that don't provide
all of the groups, and thus don't include all of them in the xref header.
Should this be addressed and if so how? My first thought is that if the
group isn't carried, it should be listed with "0" as the locator.
-- J.B. Moreno