From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 16:41:07 CDT
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> Serving and relaying agents MUST accept any syntactially correct
> newsgroup-name even if it would violate whatever policy restrictions
> may be in place.
One snag: I think it's worth making it clearer that this applies only in
the context of Newsgroups and related headers in incoming articles. The
policy restrictions definitely do apply to those pieces of software when
newsgroup names appear in other contexts, e.g. control messages.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net