From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 13:12:35 CDT
In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10104211946120.23342-100000@spock.peak.org> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
>] Headers with the local property are significant only to a particular
>] serving agent (or perhaps a cooperating group of such agents). They
>] MAY be removed by relaying agents before propagation, and MUST be
>] removed (and replaced as necessary) by serving agents when received.
>So, in our draft, we say that local headers may be of interest to a
>"cooperating group of [serving] agents" but then say that they MUST be
>removed by "serving agents" when received. So we admit that groups of
>servers can cooperate on local headers, but then say that the header they
>are cooperating on MUST be removed when a serving agent receives an
>article. That's a direct contradiction. If I didn't know better, I'd think
>the person who wrote this paragraph was loopy.
As you will have seen from an earlier post, I have fixed that now. But
it's so nice to know that I am not "loopy".
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