Re: Injector-Info.01

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 04:46:36 CDT


In <200009021855.UAA14255@kairos.algonet.se> sommar@algonet.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:

>Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>> The Injector-Info header is added to an article by an injecting agent
>> in order to provide information as to how that article entered the
>> Netnews system and to assist in tracing its true origin. It is
>> intended to replace various currently-used but nowhere-documented
>> headers such as "NNTP-Posting-Host", "NNTP-Posting-Date" amd "X-
>> Trace".

>As part of our Draft, this text is somewhat funny. Wouldn't it be more
>appropriate to discuss X-Trace & co in a note?

Yes. Noted.

One of my objections to NNTP-* headers is that they really have nothing to
do with NNTP. The posting-host may be a perfectly identifiable entity even
in a UUCP environment.

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