From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 09:20:47 CST
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> I dunno. Are there still extant servers that interpret a Subject: cmsg...
> as a control message and create new groups from it?
There probably are a few, just because there is so much *really old*
software still in use in corners of the net. But I think we are beyond
point where backward compatibility with them is a real issue.
> >Do we have any comment to make in 3.1.1.9 about posting agents generating
> >Followup-To headers pointing to groups which do not exist on their immediate
> >host? (I believe most current servers disallow this behaviour.)
>
> ...I think you have a point, and I have made a note of it. Anyone
> else support the idea?
Extending this from Newsgroups to cover Followup-To as well seems
reasonable to me.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net