From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 18:49:14 CST
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> There is currently no wording to say that the Injector-Info header
> SHOULD be present (though we might add such wording).
I personally have no problems with requiring Injector-Info at the SHOULD
level; currently existing practice is to require NNTP-Posting-Host at the
SHOULD level for spam filtering and trace reasons despite the fact that
it's not as well-suited for this purpose as Injector-Info would be.
>> This seems like a very difficult requirement to fulfill if the above
>> recommendation is followed; how is the injecting agent supposed to know
>> whether there's also a news server running on the same host that uses
>> that as its Path entry?
> We discussed this at the time, and that is why it is only a SHOULD.
> Essentially, it says that sysadmins SHOULD do the best they can (which
> may not be much) but cerainly SHOULD fix the problem if it is spotted
> and pointed out to them. Technically, anything more than that is
> impossible to implement anyway.
Ah, yes, that's right, I remember that now. Objection withdrawn.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>