Re: draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-02

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Stanley <stanley@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> If we are going to talk about gating articles into a horribly broken
> messaging system (one that has no concept of message identifiers), then
> we have to accept that it is broken and isn't our responsibility or
> within our ability to fix.

Right.

This is what my original text about gatewaying said, long, long ago, so I
don't understand why we're even discussing it.  It's completely outside
the scope of our document to specify how gateways into other media should
deal with the shortcomings of that media.  All we can say is what's
important to Usenet and leave it to the person writing the gateway, or to
a separate specification aimed only at gatewaying.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>