From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 16:02:09 CDT
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > If the article is rejected, then it fails for all the newsgroups
> > for which it was intended (in particular the moderator MUST NOT
> > resubmit the article, with a reduced Newsgroups header, to any
> > remaining groups). If the article is accepted, the moderator
> > proceeds with the following steps.
>
> SHOULD NOT. Not trimming the newsgroups header is a matter of policy; we
> can recommend a policy, and I think the interoperability concerns warrant
> that, but it is possible to do this in a way that does not break news, and
> there are existing moderated newsgroups for which the moderator regularly
> modifies the Newsgroups header.
>
> If we make the switch to OUGHT, I think this should be an OUGHT NOT rather
> than a SHOULD NOT.
Just a "me too" here. That MUST NOT sticks out like a sore thumb.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se