Re: ietf-nntp LIST DISTR*

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From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 08:54:30 CST


On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, John Stanley wrote:

> 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?

How about "existing practice?" Most ISPs and schools do fill in that
value by default, and many corporations do as well, sometimes making it a
header which can not be set by the user.

Another case where I see no reason to prohibit a common practice which
raises no interoperability issues. It would appear that all the major
server software accepts an empty header line ending in colon-blank.

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   -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
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 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me


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