At 14:51 31/05/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Ga�l Roualland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Yes, "*" is translated for 1600, so that gives the range 1601:1600.
> > But does that have sense ?
>
>Sure.
>
> > (general understanding is probably that the
> > second sequence number must be larger or equal to the first one, but I
> > can't find it in the RFC).
>
>Precisely. As far as the RFC says, "1:2" and "2:1" are equivalent.

It doesn't say this.. (as far as I can see). It's open to interpretation 
from reading the RFC.

(It doesn't actually seem to explicitly say what '10:20' means either... 
(as far as I can see). It means 'messages 10 to 20 inclusive' (I hope...), 
but I can't see anywhere it says this, it wouldn't be impossible for 
someone to interpret it to mean '20 messages from 10 onwards (ie 10->29 
inclusive)' or even something else.  The RFC says "colon delimits between 
two numbers inclusive." which doesn't seem like English to me, and is vague 
about what those 'numbers' mean.... :-) )


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