From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 08:19:15 CDT
In <40984D2A.1060209@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>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)?
You can do even better than 'vi'. You can even use telnet direct to port 119.
But in either case, the posting agent or the followup agent, as the case
may be, is not then 'vi' or 'telnet'; it is the software in the user's
wetware computer. If the user's wetware does all the things required of a
posting or followup agent, and thereby causes a valid article to be
injected, then the standard has been complied with. It is in that case the
user's responsibility to get it right, whether or not his 'vi' or his
'telnet' gives him any magical assistance.
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