From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 08:03:21 CDT
In <3DA058BD.1040102@meowing.net> greg andruk <gja@meowing.net> writes:
>Erland Sommarskog wrote:
>> However, the use of UTF-8 only requires user agents to be updated
>False. Servers would require modifications to their moderated group
>handling and control mesage processing
No, I think not. Editing the mailpaths file will work fine for existing
servers until they get upgraded. Even when UTF-8 newsgroups start to be
deployed, the number of them that are initially moderated will be
exceedingly small. The worst that will happen to an unupgraded server (or
rather its injection agent) is that moderator mail sent to the address
constructed by the present algorithm will fail through containing
"illegal" characters, or will bounce from the moderators.isc.org site.
Either way, the server admin is alerted to the fact that he has a user who
posts to one of these new-fangled groups. So either he puts it into his
mailpaths by hand, or he fixes the code for the algorithm (almost as
easy), or he tells the user to 'get lost' (but hopefully more politely).
As for control message processing, all that should need to be done is to
disable the check presently in the server to reject 'illegal' newsgroup
names. Again, the admin should be informed that a 'bad' newsgroup message
had been received, so either he creates it by hand (and there is no
suggestion that the scripts presently provided to do that will not work),
or he decides not to allow the group on his server. As far as we can tell,
that is what happened when the Danish group was created. Those who wanted
it had no difficulty creating it, and those who didn't took a conscious
decision not to.
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