Re: ietf-nntp OVER extension

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In message <[email protected]>, Andrew Gierth 
<[email protected]> writes
> Clive> Um, I can see the number of octets being different, because of
> Clive> dot stuffing, but I'm not sure I get the "isn't predictable"
> Clive> bit. Isn't the whole reason this is in the overview to *make*
> Clive> it predictable ?
>
>Diablo, for example, stores the overviews and article bodies on
>separate servers, and there may be more than one server for the
>bodies, with no guarantee that the octet size will be the same on all
>(because the Path may differ).

Argh.

Okay, how does the following sound?

The bytes value
- - MUST be at least the number of bytes in the article, counting CRLF as
   one byte;
- - MUST NOT be more than the number of bytes, counting CRLF as two bytes,
   plus 255;
- - SHOULD be the number of bytes, counting CRLF as two bytes.

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