From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 12:55:03 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
>> On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>>> I originally moved the explanations of who may issue 1st, 2nd and 3rd
>>> party cancels from USEFOR into USEAGE. John Stanley asked for them to
>>> be moved back. I have no particular problem with this, but would not
>>> want to do so on the say-so of just one person...
>> I would support this. It seems to me that this has potential to cause
>> harm, i.e. it is a standards-track issue (although effective
>> enforcement mechanisms are, alas, a topic for later work).
> Noted. Anyone else want to play?
I think it belongs in USAGE unless we actually have some way of
implementing a restriction at the protocol level. Who sends the cancels
is not a strict protocol issue; it doesn't affect how things are formatted
on the wire, nor does it affect how news messages are interpreted by news
software.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>