Re: ISSUE 1583 status

In <[email protected]> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

> 
>           <t>The &lt;chksernr> argument may be any positive integer.  If
>           present, it MUST increase with every change to the newsgroup
>-          list and MUST NOT ever decrease.  If provided, news servers
>-          SHOULD remember the &lt;chksernr> value of the previous
>-          checkgroups control message honored for a particular hierarchy
>-          or sub-hierarchy and decline to honor any subsequent checkgroups
>-          control message for the same hierarchy or sub-hierarchy with a
>-          smaller &lt;chksernr> value.</t>
>+          list, MUST NOT ever decrease, and MUST be included in all
>+          subsequent checkgroups control messages with the same scope.
>+          If provided, news servers SHOULD remember the &lt;chksernr>
>+          value of the previous checkgroups control message honored for a
>+          particular hierarchy or sub-hierarchy and decline to honor any
>+          subsequent checkgroups control message for the same hierarchy
>+          or sub-hierarchy with a smaller &lt;chksernr> value or with no
>+          &lt;chksernr> value.</t>

A touch too strong for my liking. Perhaps "... and report for human
evaluation any subsequent checkgroups control message for the same
hierarchy or sub-hierarchy with a smaller &lt;chksernr> value or with no
&lt;chksernr> value.".

But even that seems to suggest that valid chechgroups should be accepted
on "auto-pilot", which is probably not a good idea.

But I am not pressing this too strongly if others are happy.

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