From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 21:10:50 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <Pine.LNX.4.53.0404301017500.18711@a.shell.peak.org> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
>>So, should I choose to create an article using no followup agent other
>>than vi, the standard cannot tell me what I must put into the article,
>>the news system should accept anything I happen to feel like creating,
>>because the standard cannot prescribe what I do? You cannot tell me, as a
>>user, that what I wrote is not a valid article, so as such, it will be
>>accepted by any relay agent that I pass it to?
>
>
> You can indeed construct any article you like using vi. If you choose to
> include a References-header it will technically be a followup, and vice
> versa. The Subject can be whatever you like. If all the rest of the
> headers are consistent with the draft, then it will be a valid article
> and the injecting agent (not the relaying agent) will allow it through. If
> not, it won't.
>
>
>>Or do you intend that vi should be written to recognize the text being
>>entered as "news article" and act accordingly, enforing the proscriptions
>>of the news standard?
Charles, you have failed to answer John's question. If in fact his followup
agent is vi, do you still intend to require vi to magically generate a
default Subject field, References fields, etc., or do you at last recognize
the silliness of such requirements in the case where the followup agent is
not news-specific (as in the case of vi)?
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