From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 15:41:43 CDT
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Usenet News Support wrote:
> > ...message about INN rejecting (not simply mis-displaying) messages
> > answers that query quite completely...
>
> You did note that I mentioned that some existing software is broken WRT
> this? I dont regard "INN is broken and needs this" and a good
> justification for putting a restriction in a standard.
Compatibility with the existing software base is a very important issue
for standards like this, and is a major reason for retaining existing
restrictions (this is not a case of "putting a restriction in" -- this one
has been present all along). Even if those restrictions do happen to be
rather ugly.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net