15 Feb 2011 20:45
[NNTP] Clarification of intra-document references in RFC 3977
Julien ÉLIE <julien <at> trigofacile.com>
2011-02-15 19:45:35 GMT
2011-02-15 19:45:35 GMT
Following a discussion with Alfred Hönes, who reported:
> clarification of intra-document ref.
>
> Within Section 2 of RFC 3977, the first paragraph on page 6 says:
>
> [...]. In some cases, however, they do assume that
> the currently selected newsgroup (see the GROUP command,
> Section 6.1.1) is invalid; when so, this is indicated at the start of
> the example. [...]
>
> The "currently selected newsgroup" is introduced in Section 6.1 (see
> next quotation below); as such, the clause therein,
>
> (see the GROUP command, Section 6.1.1)
>
> should more appropriately have been replaced by:
>
> (see Section 6.1)
> or:
> (see Section 6.1 ff.)
I do not know well what to do with that.
Here is my answer to Alfred:
I do not think the text should be changed this way.
In Section 6.1.1, we have:
The GROUP command selects a newsgroup as the currently selected
newsgroup and returns summary information about it.
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