From: Frank Ellermann (nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 11:38:35 CDT
Eivind Tagseth wrote:
> if following up on a message with Subject "cmsg" causes
> problem when not prepending "Re: ", then surely the original
> message would also cause problem, and then there wouldn't be
> any message to follow up?
No, my followup was to a "real" cmsg (not only the Subject, a
cancel message in control), posted in a news.net-abuse group.
That's how I found that groups.google didn't archive articles
with Subject: cmsg - my Subject: Re: cmsg also wasn't archived,
so in that case adding a "Re: " didn't help.
The idea of Russ / Bruce, that gateways and "injection agents"
should be allowed to encode "cmsg " in this case is probably
the best solution. And of course "injection agents" could
silently add "Control: cancel" to "Subject: cmsg cancel" where
this is possible - the proposed wording allowed this.
It kills my funny idea that "Re: " is necessary to invalidate
"cmsg " in old message/news subjects. But the cmsg part is
still an "over-the-wire" issue, not only USEAGE.
Bye, Frank