From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 12:52:09 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Will Russ please read what we have had in the Newsgroups header for 9
> months or more now. It says explicitly how a Newsgroups header in mail
> is to be interpreted (and likely renders some ancient rn practice
> non-compliant - I can live with that).
It doesn't matter what we say; we're not a mail standard. We don't get to
say what things mean in mail, as much as I'd like to change the world.
Anyway, we've had several really long discussions of this over the years
and I'm pretty burned out on discussing it; the solution we arrived at is
one I'm not at all fond of (I dislike yes/no headers, and I think using
Newsgroups is just asking for it), but I guess at some point we need to
decide something and constantly revisiting doesn't help much.
It's not, however, an ancient rn practice; I believe the most current
version of trn still does this. But I could be wrong; I haven't used trn
in a while.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>