Re: ietf-nntp LIST DISTR*

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From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 17:30:14 CST


Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk):

>It was intended for missing Message-ID, Date, From, Organization, and
>such like (even Sender, as we discussed recently).

How could it have been intended for a header that it cannot know needs to
be inserted? Of course, we've discussed this inability recently.

>For example, it would be rather naughty
>for it to add Reply-To different to the From,

And for it to add (or modify) Sender when it has no data from which to
construct such a header. Why is being "naughty" (which a program cannot
be) ok sometimes but not others?

>So we might, for example, say that the injector should only be adding
>missing mandatory headers (but that would exclude Distribution and
>Organization,

There is a good excuses for allowing an injector to add a missing
Distribution, I can see no reason at all it should be messing with the
Organization header. Not a single reason. Do you have one?


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