From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 14:45:09 CST
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:38:06PM +0100, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> > Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> writes:
> > > Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> >
> > >> This basically matches my opinion. I'm highly leery of the Replaces
> > >> stuff and tried to go through that discussion once before, but without
> > >> a lot of luck. I think it would be distantly possible for INN in some
> > >> specific environments to implement what the draft requires, but the
> > >> details are hairy enough that I wouldn't want to be the person who
> > >> tried to do it and I'd be surprised if Diablo or Cyclone or the like
> > >> would find it even that easy.
> >
> > > Hm, stupid question, but is there any pressing need to implement
> > > Replaces in a server without readers? Do these systems carry out
> > > cancellations today?
A pressing need? No. It would be nice if, for a rapid fire replacement
they handled it and thus avoided even sending out the original article.
This would be a courtesy to downstream sites that don't yet understand
the new headers. Once they all do, they could handle getting both and
replacing on their own.