From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 13:06:45 CDT
In <8XAw2UWocDC@3247.org> list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
>Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
>> It would be better if you could provide an example that actually did that.
>| Message-ID: <ofjew4978rzikj@test.3247.org> ;test="test"
>> It is, of course, why it is a "SHOULD NOT" to do any such thing.
>What? Refusing to accept the article or generating such articles? Of
>course, the standard says both.
It says you SHOULD NOT generate it (for the benefit of servers that have
not upgraded to the new standard) but you MUST accept it (otherwise you
cannot claim to have completed your upgrade).
>But it does not make sense at all to define a syntax and prohibit its
>use it in the same document:
It is done already in RFC 2822.
>Unless it is used it won't be implemented and unless it's implemented at
>nearly every newsserver (which is illusoric considering the slow
>adaption rate of Usenet infrastructure) it can't be used.
So you have a vicious circle. How would YOU break it?
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