From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 05:36:36 CDT
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In message <ylem26frog.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery
<rra@stanford.edu> writes
>> A followup agent MUST NOT (unless its user explicitly overrides it)
>> email a copy of the followup article to the author of the original
>> article if the Mail-Copies-To header contains the "nobody" keyword.
>> If the user explicitly overrides this provision, the followup agent
>> MUST/SHOULD/Ought to issue a warning to the user and ask for
>> confirmation.
>> [MUST/SHOULD/Ought? This hardly causes interoperability problems.
>> Perhaps that sentence is not needed at all. Opinions?]
>
>I vote for just dropping that sentence; I think the important idea there
>is implicit in the requirement for an explicit override.
No, I think it's a "stop clueless authors now" thing, which should be an
"Ought".
>If we're going to say that, then I'd rather see a Posted-To header that
>lists the newsgroups to which the message was posted, since that provides
>some additional useful information
Agreed.
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