From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 16:20:18 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> OK, but I thought my posting-host parameter DID have the same semantics
> as NNTP-Posting-Host. The only difference I am aware of is that I have
> made provision for either FQDN or IP number or Both. Is there anything
> in the existing NNTP-Posting-Host I have not included?
Some folks are currently including cookies that aren't actually IP
addresses or hostnames but that serve the same filtering purpose in their
NNTP-Posting-Host headers. I don't have any problems with that; it means
they still fulfill the same purpose. But with a stricter definition of
what goes where, I'm worried those people will just not put a posting-host
attribute in Injector-Info, thus making it much harder to filter their
posts and requiring special-casing.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>