Re: #1047 Path field delimiters - feed behaviour? (fwd)

[Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> If, in a message arriving at the old system "here", there is...
> Path: there!::FFFF:129.144.52.38!not-for-mail
> and "here" does not know about any system named "FFFF", will any change in
> handling happen?

Nope.  The Path header affects article propagation only to neighbors whose
names are mentioned in it.  If "FFFF" isn't known to be the name of a
neighbor, no effect. 

> Conversely, if a message arrives with a Path: header that says
> Path: there!::FFFF:129.144.52.38!::FFFF:129.145.23.23!not-for-mail
> will the two occurences of "FFFF" in the Path: cause anything bad to happen?

Not in the implementations I'm familiar with, and probably not in any
implementation.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx