From: Brian Palmer (bpalmer@leland.stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 07:55:07 CST
chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) writes:
> Exactly so. Just to keep us all on track, here is the exact wording we are
> concerned about:
>
> 10. The injecting agent MAY add other headers not already provided
> by the poster, but SHOULD NOT alter, delete or reorder any
> headers already present in the article, except that existing
> headers intended for tracing purposes, such as Injector-Info and
> Complaints-To, are to be removed as already mentioned. The
> injecting agent MUST NOT alter the body of the article in any
> way.
This sentence is somewhat confusing, in that it zigs and zags. How about
The injecting agent MAY add other headers not already provided
by the poster, but SHOULD NOT alter, delete, or reorder any
non-tracing header. The injecting agent MUST NOT alter the
body of the article in any way.
> [Alternative note]
>
> NOTE: Care needs to be exercised, when adding any non-mandatory
> header in this way, to ensure that the intentions of the poster
> are preserved. In particular, for tracing or accountability
> purposes, it is preferable to make use of the Injector-Info-
> header (bearing in mind the privacy implications set out in
> 6.19.1) rather than to add, say, a Sender-header.
And we're dancing around the point, here, and being unduly
passive. How about
NOTE: The addition of non-mandatory headers by the injecting
agent may alter the posting agent's preferred presentation of
information. Ideally, the injecting agent will comply with the
poster's preferences; in particular, adding a Sender-header
that exposes a sender's mailbox is deprecated in favor of
adding tracing information via the Injector-Info header (see
6.19.1 for usage notes on Injector-Info).
-- Brian Palmer "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you" - Nietzsche