From: Per Abrahamsen (abraham@dina.kvl.dk)
Date: Tue Nov 28 2000 - 14:13:12 CST
"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <Shmuel@acm.org> writes:
> No, it appears to confer some measure of legitimacy to post-and-mail
> when there is no M-C-T.
But there is! The poster may have requested it in the body of the
message. The message may be in a group where CC's are accepted. The
content of the message may indicate technical problems or an emergency
that would indicate a CC a good idea. Some out-of-band information
may do the same.
A "M-C-T: nobody" changes the weight given these other considerations.
In particular, even if the group in general accepts CC's (like many
bug reporting groups do), the "M-C-T: nobody" shows that the particular
poster does not.
Good newsreaders will implement the following
If the user press "post and reply", and there is no MCT
header, the agent do as requested without a warning.
If the user press "post and reply", and there is MCT: nobody
header, the agent will create a warning.
Bad newsreaders will implement the following
If the user press "post and reply", the agent do as requested
without a warning, no matter what the MCT says.
No newsreaders will implement the following
If the user press "post and reply", the agent produces a
warning, even if MCT is missing.
The standard should not be worded in a way that good newsreaders will
have to be non-comformant.