From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 06:43:10 CDT
In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10206171029420.4943-100000@spock.peak.org> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
>Straw man. Step 10 is not the issue. The new version of step 5 is. And the
>permissive language of the note in 5.2 still is.
>> All indications in this present thread are that the
>> consensus has not changed.
>Nor has the wording in step 10, but the wording, and meaning, of step 5
>has, and it permits a lot of things that the consensus that produced step
>10 intended would prohibit. Like changing the Subject header based on
>"site policy". Like changing any header based on "site policy".
On the contrary, changing the Subject header (whether for "site policy" or
for other reasons) is forbidden (SHOULD NOT) by Step 10. The same applies
to ANY header (even a Sender header) already present in the article.
But take another example. Is it allowed for an injecting agent to insert
an Organization header (assuming none was present beforehand)? This is
routinely done in lots of places by way of "site policy", and noone except
yourself has ever thought that was wrong. In fact, it appears that the
original wording of Step 5 inadvertently prohibited this. The new wording
now allows it.
>> Other who wish to have a poll should so indicate before Monday.
>How swell, you publish a time limit on Friday that expires before Monday.
>I'm sure everyone spends their entire weekend reading this list just to
>keep up with your ever-changing sets of deadlines.
Well it is now Tuesday, and NOBODY else has asked for a straw poll.
Therefore there will be none, and this whole issue is therefore now
CLOSED. If you do not like this, then you will need to take it up in email
with our Chairman.
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