From: Claus Färber (list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Sun Aug 18 2002 - 06:18:00 CDT
Erland Sommarskog <sommar-usefor@algonet.se> schrieb/wrote:
> But anyone with the slightest understanding of News, realizes that
> changing the Newsgroups line in anyway, is an absolutely wrong thing
> to do. The software could possibly object and say that the newsgroup
> name violates the standard. But transforming the newsgroup name is
> brokenness and nothing else.
So far, it has been a valid assumption that the Newsgroup header does
not contain anything that can be damaged by RFC 2047 encoding. If you
deliberatly choose to break that assumption, you can't blame the soft-
ware.
What counts is that software software is able to handle newsgroup names
which are within the bounds of the (current) specification. The
roboustness principle dictates to accept "wrong" newsgroup names but it
does not provide any guidelines how to handle them. Just because one
possibility turns out to be better than another one does not mean it is
more correct.
Claus
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