From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 13:26:20 CDT
Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
> On Thu, 13 May 2004, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> 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?
> I think so, yes. The theory is that identical message ID means identical
> article, apart from the possibility of different routes yielding different
> Path headers. So when the article is deliberately set propagating from
> more than one point, it's appropriate to try hard to make the copies as
> identical as humanly possible, including filling in all the headers you
> can reasonably fill in.
I agree.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>