From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 05:16:20 CDT
In <n2m-g.Xns9267820305651grahamdrabblelineone@ID-77355.user.dfncis.de> Graham Drabble <graham.drabble@lineone.net> writes:
>On 10 Aug 2002 "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote in
>news:H0n0L1.1Ky@clw.cs.man.ac.uk:
>> So it now says:
>>
>> (a) The complete article is encapsulated (headers and all)
>> within
>> the email, preferably using the Content-Type
>> "application/news-transmission" (6.21.6.1) with any
>> usage parameter set to "moderate". Moreover, there
>> SHOULD NOT be more than one encapsulated article within
>I think I'd prefer to have a MUST NOT.
Anybody else want to go that far?
SHOULD NOT is quite sufficient to allow a moderator to drop such things on
the floor unread without any qualm. In any case, every moderator must be
prepared to see submissions that are so grossly malformed that it is
pointless to consider them further.
But there may be special circumstances where, by agreed arrangements or
special conventions in some special-purpose group, it might be convenient
to send a batch of separate encapsulations - gatewaying from a mailing
list, for example. So it might be better not to forbid it entirely.
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