From: Ralph Babel (rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de)
Date: Sun Oct 03 1999 - 07:36:18 CDT
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Except just as there are circumstances in which you want
> to receive articles with old Date headers (backfilling a
> server from another, for example), there are circumstances
> when you want to reforward articles to a peer.
Absolutely. Doesn't this sound like a
"SHOULD NOT" according to RFC 2119 then?
> I agree that putting restrictions on the forwarding
> is better than putting restrictions on the acceptance;
> news servers can obviously implement that by restricting
> acceptance. This one may call for an "except in special
> circumstances" sort of exception.
Actually, with that type of exception, we may
well restrict both forwarding and acceptance.