Re: [NNTP] Article Reinstatement

Hi Sabahattin,

> I think we really need an effort to roll all these errata into
> 3977bis.

=85 and move the NNTP protocol to Draft Standard at the same time.



> But how do we
> distinguish, inside the server, an article that *might* be reinstated
> and one that just expired?

I think it is implementation-specific, and therefore not to be dealt=20
with in an RFC.



>>> So what does a server do when the lowest-numbered article is
>>> pending reinstatement and the client requests it?
>>
>> The news server just answers the article does not exist:
>
> Is there any language which specifically allows the use of these
> codes for reporting an invalid article number because of a (possible)
> reinstatement?

The article does not exist.  The language is to respond 430/423/420.
(Please note that I wrote twice 423 in my previous mail; it was 423+420.)

Maybe you were asking for a new code telling that the article does not=20
exist but may be reinstated?
It could be something to look at in RFC3977bis.  However, clients do not=20
currently expect this possible new response code to existing commands=20
like ARTICLE.



> This doesn't always
> work, but it does work 99% of the time.  Especially since many
> servers just don't do the reinstatement thing at all.

Though I do not have figures, I would tend to think that it is far more=20
than 99%.  "Many servers don't do the reinstatement thing" might also be=20
an euphemism :)

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Julien =C9LIE

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