From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 08 2004 - 18:40:14 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> 1. In current versions of INN, the injector (POST command/whatever)
> modifies the article by adding a Control header (so now every site on
> Usenet will see it and obey it). That is way more than RFC 1036 asked
> for, and I think we are agreed it should stop.
Right.
> 2. In earlier versions of INN, it also did that but _in addition_ it
> also caught incoming (relayed) messages with cmsg (but no Control
> header) and treated them (internally) as control messages. That is (more
> or less) what RFC 1036 asks for.
Right.
> 3. There is a proposal (in son-of-1036 and in our earlier drafts) that
> injectors MUST/SHOULD reject articles whose Subject started with "cmsg"
> (and did not contain a proper Control-header as well).
Right.
> I assume we intend to forbid #1 outright, so it either gets caught by #3
> (if #3 implemented), or goes out as a normal article (if #3 not
> implemented).
I don't believe there's any reason to even mention #1 in the draft; it's
obviously incorrect behavior under the new standard that's already covered
by not assigning any special meaning to "cmsg". Besides, we should say
#3, which obviously prevents #1.
Let's not add more new language when we don't need to; the draft is
already long enough.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>