From: Dirk Nimmich (nimmich@uni-muenster.de)
Date: Sat Oct 16 1999 - 12:46:27 CDT
Brian McCauley schrieb:
> 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.
I disagree. Mail messages _do_ have another format (it's close, but
different); otherwise there needn't have to be (at least) two RFCs
to deal with.
> As a newsgroup moderator I occasionally see broken submissions with
> the whole article (headers and body) in the mail message body.
I don't agree that they are broken. In fact, I think this is the
only appropriate way for a submission. The submitter doesn't have
control over mail headers after they left his computer. You (or I),
as the moderater, cannot distinguish what header lines (X-Headers
for example) were included by the submitter or a MTA and should or
should not be published, respectively. Not encapsulated news
messages are more likely to be munged by mail transport agents than
encapsulated messages that can be transport encoded to prevent such
munging -- just think of the different default character set
(US-ASCII in mail by now, UTF-8 in news with our draft).
At least, an encapsulated message is much easier to post than
gatewaying (sic!) a mail message to usenet. (IMHO. YMMV.)