From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 22 1999 - 15:29:08 CDT
Clive D W Feather <clive@demon.net> writes:
> Russ Allbery said:
>> That practice should be deprecated. Moderators shouldn't be modifying
>> message IDs; it can lead to loops and other unpleasantness. Currently
>> they have to do so to some degree because messages come through mail
>> and mail message IDs aren't necessarily valid for news; with this
>> standard, we'll standardize an encapsulation protocol for sending
>> messages via e-mail and the encapsulated article must have a valid
>> message ID already.
> Firstly, how do we know articles mailed to moderators will always be
> encapsulated in this way ? We don't.
If it's not, they're doing gatewaying, not moderating, and a whole
different set of rules apply. Under the normal circumstance they should
be prepared to do both.
> Secondly, is the moderator sent an article or a proto-article ?
I think it should be an article.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>