# the one comment I got about nntp section...

Mark P. McCahill (mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu)
Tue, 22 Mar 94 15:37:13 CST

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    Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 15:37:13 CST

    Message-Id: <9403222137.AA07726@boombox.micro.umn.edu>

    From: "Mark P. McCahill" <mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu>

    To: timbl@ptpc00.cern.ch, uri@bunyip.com

    Subject: the one comment I got about nntp section...

Here is the one comment I got about the nntp section:

------------ Forwarded Message begins here ------------
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 13:36:46 -0800 (PST)
To: mpm
Subject: Re: Mark acting as Tim's proxy: the revised News section of the URL
draft

> The news locators refer to either news group names or article message
> identifiers which must conform to the rules of RFC 850.

>From RFC-INDEX:

1036 M. Horton, R. Adams, "Standard for interchange of USENET messages",
12/01/1987. (Pages=19) (Format=.txt) (Obsoletes RFC0850)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And NNTP is described in RFC 977 in which
"3.1.1. ARTICLE (selection by message-id)"
is to be found.

randy

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Mark P. McCahill

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