From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 06:37:39 CDT
In <yl3djdkyjx.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>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.
Can you give me an example of such a cookie? Do they have the syntactic
form of an FQDN or an IP address?
Presumably the intention of filtering of NNTP-Posting-Host is to reject
everything fome some named site (or class of sites). Is that correct, or
can the filtering do more than that?
And presumably, if you are trying to filter out a particular site, you
will first observe what that site's injector currently put in, and then
filter against that (so, following CLive's suggestion, it might sometimes
be more useful to filter against 'posting-account' than against
'posting-host').
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