From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 11:31:03 CDT
In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0308010735050.21489-100000@deathstar.prodigy.com> Usenet News Support <support@deathstar.prodigy.com> writes:
>On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> I shall be on holiday from Aug 1st through Aug 14. I hope that, by the
>> time I get back, the WG and the Chair will have agreed how to deal with
>> the "Re: " problem, so that I can move on to the next stage.
I am back, and the WG and the Chair seem to have been conspicuously silent
:-( .
>We already have, the next stage seems to be rehashing adding of a
>"Sender:" header.
No, I don't think we have. We know there are people who prefer a weaker
approach to "Re: ", and people who prefer a stronger one. Our Chair has
said that he will not allow a vote, but will announce what the consensus
is when he has discerned it.
In the meantime, there is a text under "duties of a followup agent" in the
latest draft, which you may comment on, and which I will gladly change
when the discernment is complete (FWIW, my own view is to leave it, but
with the two MUSTs demoted to SHOULDs).
>As an afterthought I wish I had a year ago, if the post contains a
> Sender: private
>header, perhaps we could have agreed that the injector MUST NOT add a
>Sender line and MAY reject the post due to local policy. I'm still not
>happy with the strength of the privacy policy.
As I explained in an earlier response to Shmuel (sp?), I believe that
Sender issue to be closed, and he seemed to accept that. However, if our
Chair chooses to declare it re-opened ...
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