From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 06:02:30 CDT
In <87n04ivp5x.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>Multiple injection is commonly used by the moderator when posting messages
>to moderated groups. It's important for robustness and is fully supported
>by the Usenet architecture. You simply have to (MUST) use the same
>message ID for every post.
A good point. I have added a sentence to the paragraph about proto-articles:
8.2.1. Proto-articles
A proto-article is one that has been created by a posting agent and
has not yet been injected into a Netnews system by an injecting
agent. It SHOULD NOT be propagated in that form to other than
injecting agents. A proto-article has the same format as a normal
article except that some of the following mandatory headers MAY be
omitted: Message-Id-header, Date-header, Path-header (and even
From-header if the particular injecting agent can derive that
information from other sources). These headers MUST NOT contain
invalid values; they MUST either be correct or not present at all.
On the other hand, if it is intended to offer the proto-article to
two or more injecting agents in parallel, then at least the Message-
Id-header MUST be present.
Should I also say that the Date MUST be present?
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