From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 04:05:04 CST
In <3FCDFAE0.2040401@durham.ac.uk> Nick Boalch <n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk> writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
>Both are available from the Usefor Archive on landfield.com: the Curtin &
>Zawinski draft from July 1998 at
><URL:http://www.landfield.com/usefor/drafts/draft-ietf-usefor-message-id-01.txt>
>and the Faerber draft from September 1998 at
><URL:http://www.landfield.com/usefor/drafts/draft-ietf-usefor-msg-id-alt-00.txt>
Ah! I had forgotten about the second one! OK, some future work there, maybe.
>>>Section 3.1.1.4 - I don't see any real reason why the MUST NOT needs to be
>>>downgraded. Are there hordes of people queuing up to start their
>>>Subject-headers with "cmsg "?
>>
>> I dunno. Are there still extant servers that interpret a Subject: cmsg...
>> as a control message and create new groups from it? If so, they are
>> terribly, irretrievably broken and I didn't see why people should still be
>> expected to pander to them.
>Fair enough. I don't have any strong feelings either way, to be honest. Would
>you suggest downgrading it to SHOULD NOT or removing it altogether?
I think SHOULD NOT (in fact I have changed it now, in view of Henry's
remarks). I think the point is that we are not really expecting injecting
agents to be checking for this case and rejecting it - just for the
benefit of the occasional site using really ancient software.
>Oh, and some orthography pedantry: "posters" in section 3.1.1.7 should have an
>apostrophe.
Oops!
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