From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 18 1999 - 04:06:53 CDT
In <u9zoxhano0.fsf@wcl-l.bham.ac.uk> Brian McCauley <B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk> writes:
>Actually so am I. At least I had independantly worked out that this
>would be the "right way" if a change to the existng mechanism was
>ever to be discussed. However, I'd searched the mailing list archive
>quite thoroughly and concluded that the matter had not been discussed.
>Was the matter discussed in some other forum?
It was written into the draft a long way back, and excited little comment
at the time. It will come up again for full discussion when we come to the
chapter which includes the duties of various agents.
>> Encapsulating the message sounds like more work, but I really think that's
>> just during the transition.
>There will be a need for very careful management of the transition.
>There are many ad-hoc procmail and/or perl filters out there for
>moderation that would break.
But there is no transition. This has always been a proper way to send
articles to a moderator. CNews has been doing it for many years. Any
script that does not cope with it is already broken.
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