Re: Sender header

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 04:47:38 CST


In <20020305093541.GG75999@finch-staff-1.demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> writes:

>Charles Lindsey said:
>> OK, it now says
>>
>> 10. The injecting agent MUST NOT alter the body of the article in
>> any way. It MAY add other headers not already provided by the
>> poster, but SHOULD NOT alter, delete, or reorder any existing
>> header, with the specific exception of "tracing" headers such as
>> Injector-Info and Complaints-To, which are to be removed as
>> already mentioned.

>"which are to be removed" should be "which MAY be removed". Or is it SHOULD,
>or MUST ?

That is paragraph 10 of a long list of steps to be taken by an Injecting
Agent. The words "as already mentioned" refer to paragraph 1, where it is
stated that the headers in question MUST be removed (or SHOULD in the case
of the NNTP-* ones).

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