From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 08:21:42 CST
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Brad Templeton wrote:
> > 2. The consistent convention in RFC2822 is also to allow multiple
> > addresses in all the "outward" headers; therefore Complaints-To ought to
> > do the same.
> >
> > I am therefore changing the syntax to
> >
> > Complaints-To-content = address-list
>
> I will note that we can save a lot of bytes if, while defining this
> header, we define a default for it (usenet-complaints@injector-host) so
> that if people want to enable the default address, they don't need to put
> in the header.
Arrgh! We have spent years trying to get people to send technical stuff
to usenet@ or news@ and complaints to abuse@ and you want to create a new
standard address? Why? Expecting complainers to learn a bunch of
addresses is optimistic at best, and don't even trot out the old "the
software can do it" line, unless you can show me that there is such a
feature in widely used software. People aren't going to upgrade or change
software to please us!
There is a "current practice" of abuse@ which works very well (my
canned whine software gets few bounces these days). If a site wants to
set that in the injector, that's a site option.
We shouldn't standardize things which (a) don't affect
interoperability, and (b) are contrary to current practice.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me