From: Graham Drabble (graham.drabble@lineone.net)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 10:35:00 CDT
On 22 Jul 2002 Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> wrote in
news:Pine.BSI.3.91.1020722105043.10963E-100000@spsystems.net:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Graham Drabble wrote:
>> > 4. It MUST reject any article that does not have the
>> > correct
>> > mandatory headers for a proto-article (5 and 8.2.1)
>> > present, or which contains any header that does not
>> > have legal contents, and it SHOULD ...
>>
>> Can you have a MUST ... OR ? It seems contradictory.
>
> It's not "MUST...OR", it's "MUST reject if (x or y)". Nothing
> wrong with it.
I was actually looking at a different bit of the quoted text. <fx:
slaps wrist for quoting to much>.
I was looking at
In particular, it MUST reject
^^^^^
any article whose Newsgroups-header or Followup-To-header
contains an encoded newsgroup-name (5.5.2) although it MAY
^^^^^^^^^^
instead decode those newsgroup-names and continue (this being a
useful service for moderators using that injecting agent, see
8.7).
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