From: Frank Ellermann (nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de)
Date: Wed Jun 30 2004 - 02:13:11 CDT
Russ Allbery wrote:
>> handle message/news subjects as message/rfc822 subjects."
> Nope, doesn't help. "Subject: cmsg" isn't interpreted only
> by the server to which the message is posted, but at every
> single news server that receives the article down the line
Oops, that's something I haven't seen "in the real world" so
far (minus groups.google oddities). Of course it was _meant_
this way (before RfC 1036), and today's news servers still try
to protect their older colleagues (or they even add a missing
"Control: cancel" to an _injected_ "Subject: cmsg cancel"), but
that's all about injection and not relaying.
You say that there are still some _existing_ pre-1036 servers ?
That's incompatible with Bruce's statement, that cmsg is dead.
> the mail to news gateway has to proactively deal with this
> issue or risk odd things happening in various parts of the
> net.
Today, that's still _necessary_ today ? Not only a convention
trying to protect something which was already obsolete 1987 ?
Confused, Frank