From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar-usefor@algonet.se)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 17:31:08 CDT
"Curtis Jewell" <csjc05@mizzou.edu> writes:
> From: "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>
> > 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?]
>
> It is needed, and I'd say it should be a MUST.
Never in my life! Please explain which interoperability problem you
see.
I can find no case for anything stronger than Ought here. This has *nil*
to do with interoperability.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se