From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 03:41:44 CDT
In <20000630073517.B3320@main.templetons.com> Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> writes:
>Are there occasions where an injecting agent must modify an existing
>header if the posting agent was conformant?
It depends whether the injecting agent takes the same view of
"conformance" as the posting agent. I wouldn't like to rely on it.
Moreover, injecting agents also have a tendency to regard conformance as a
matter of conforming to the "house style". Things like preferred
conventions for headers (Message-ID: Messgae-Id: Message-id:).
>Any signing posting agent is modern and has a duty to be conformant.
And since when have injecting sites regarded "duty" as a prime concern?
Life ain't like that.
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