From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 05:40:25 CDT
In <20001004125301.18632.qmail@kairos.algonet.se> sommar@algonet.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>> You seem to assume the Posted-and-Mailed header will be optional...
>I seem to recall that in Charles's draft it appears in chapter 6
>which is Optional Headers. And of course, how could a header like
>this one be anything but optional? You can't enforce any MUST here,
>because Usenet will work just fine without it. It is a utility
>header, nothing more.
Things go in the "Optional" chapter because they are not required in ALL
articles. That is not to say that some of them should not have MUST
INCLUDE in specific circumstances. For example, the References header is in
chapter6 6, but you MUST include in in followups.
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