From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 00:28:00 CDT
Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net):
>We don't want to
>sanction its continuing use -- it *is* a botch -- but forbidding Subject
>content to begin with "cmsg " is desirable.
We have already banned a news agent from treating an article as a control
article just because its subject starts with "cmsg". What possible reason
do we need to ban that string from subjects? Oh, I remember, to protect
broken software from needing to be replaced with something that functions
up to spec.
Sorry to interrupt. Protecting bad software is the goal. My bad for
forgetting.