Re: 8.6

From: Usenet News Support (support@deathstar.prodigy.com)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 12:58:17 CST


On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, John Stanley wrote:

>
> J. B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com):
>
> >Extra stuff added to a header that isn't authorized by the user and isn't
> >required by the protocol -- that sounds like a protocol issue to me,
>
> Stuff that isn't required by the protocol is a protocol issue? WTF?

Stuff which make common news software behave in a non-useful and
unexpected way can be called interoperability, I guess, but in practical
terms it's just self-defense.

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