From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 12:51:48 CDT
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> But I still don't see that significant harm arises. Sure, you have a
> confused user whose article seems to have disappeared into thin air. But
> if you forbid Subjects starting with "cmsg" (messy), then you will still
> have confused users who cannot understand why their perfectly "normal"
> article bounced.
The big difference is that in the latter case, the user has immediate
feedback that something went wrong, even if it's a bit mysterious. In the
former, his article achieves unexpectedly poor propagation without any
warning to him. (Remember, the problem isn't necessarily on his machine.)
*Either way*, the moral of the story is that he shouldn't use a Subject
content of that form, but in the latter case, he actually hears about it.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net