From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 08:17:28 CDT
In <Pine.BSI.3.91.1030607173928.23395C-100000@spsystems.net> Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
>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.
Well that paragraph is within a section dealing with the
Newsgroups-header, so I think that is clear.
Of more importance is what we say in 7.2.1 under the newgroup control
message. There was some wording there referring to observance of policies,
but it had the "Ought" word in it, and so I moved it into USEAGE. Perhaps
that was wrong and maybe it should be brought back. Could you have a look
at that wording and tell me what you think? In view of the new wording in
5.5 that "administrative agencies SHOULD establish and promulgate the
restrictions they intend to apply within their own hierarchies", I can
well see that wording of similar strength should go in 7.2.1.
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