From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 07:44:53 CST
Seth Breidbart wrote:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>>Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>
>
>>>You are wrong; users are not permitted to override References.
>>
>>I have to disagree here; people do so routinely.
>
>
> I agree with Russ. I do too. I've done it in long threads when the
> header got too long (before it could wrap safely), by deleting a few
> out of the middle. I've also done it "illegally" (making a single
> article a followup to two different branches of a thread; obviously,
> newsreaders wouldn't show it that way, but it was the closest to what
> I, as poster, intended for the semantics).
The point is that the Usefor draft does not provide for user editing
of References; there are requirements on followup agents, but no
provision for user override.
That you might have edited a References field in the past, or that
you might do so in the future, even if the draft ever gets beyond
being merely a draft, is not relevant to what that draft requires
and permits (or does not permit).
Now if you want to change what the draft says regarding References
construction in a followup, including adding a provision for user
override, that's another matter.
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