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

[Seth Breidbart <sethb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

>> 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.

Almost certainly not.  One April 1, admins from The Hierarchy That
Shall Not Be Named all decided to add one bogus entry to their Path
entries to force it to first in the propagation statistics.  It
typically showed up several times in every article, with no observable
effects.

Seth