From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 11:09:42 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> You will also have seen the tail end of a discussion on the moderators'
> list concerning encapsulation of articles sent to moderators. It
> confirms that there will be some Pain in introducing this feature, but
> that is the price one pays for the Gain. The only thing that is new is
> that the Pain may be somewhat more widespread that I had formerly
> thought, because not all CNews implementations had been encapsulating as
> I had supposed. However, I hear no requests for further change from the
> regulars on this list, and so that area of the draft remains as it was.
For a somewhat alternate perspective (although I'll say that I'm obviously
also biased), here's how I thought the discussion went:
Charles said what USEFOR currently contained and it met with widespread
and vociferous condemnation multiple current moderators, several
moderators stating their intention to report any such submissions they
receive to the originating news sites as bugs that need to be fixed.
There were some side discussions about how widespread encapsulation
already is (namely not at all), and two or three people who said "eh, I
can deal," and currently the discussion is devolving into a "why MIME is
evil" discussion (that I'm trying to counter to some degree) which has
little to do with the actual proposal.
I've given up objecting to things in this proposal (I just don't have the
time to fight the fight in the way that it's currently being presented),
but this still does strike me as a problem.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>