From: Brian McCauley (B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Oct 16 1999 - 11:47:36 CDT
I think everyone agrees that when a server forwards articles to a
moderator using SMTP mail message the headers in the article become
headers in the mail message.
But where is this written down? Draft-ietf-usefor-article-02 section
7.1 implies this but it does not come out and say it (because it's
wrongly assumed that it should go without saying).
As a newsgroup moderator I occasionally see broken submissions with
the whole article (headers and body) in the mail message body.
It is not always easy to convince the admins that this is broken
behaviour since I can't point to an RFC that's being violated.
I propose the following be added to the to 7.1.2(b):
"For SMTP email systems articles MUST be forwarded (without any
encapsulation) as SMTP messages. Article headers become mail
headers. If the EMAIL system is not SMTP then the article SHOULD be
reformatted in accordance with any rules defined for gateways
between SMTP and the email system in question."