Re: .invalid (MUST versus SHOULD) alterative (was Re: What next?)

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From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel@acm.org)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 06:54:01 CST


In <200003011901.OAA03935@darkstar.prodigy.com>, on 03/01/2000
   at 02:01 PM, davidsen@prodigy.com (Bill Davidsen) said:

>May I suggest that the last paragraph read:
> If an injecting agent determines that an address is not deliverable
>or
> not authorized to the poster, it MUST reject the article.

"Not deliverable" is a bit broad. What happens if a mail server is
down when you test? What happens if the mail server accepts messages
to that address only if they are identifiable as replies to a
news-group article? IMHO, any wording that refers to deliverable
should make it clear that such cases are not to be rejected as
undeliverable.

I don't see equivalent problems with authentication.

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