Re: #1047 Path-identity: A proposal (perhaps)

[Bruce Lilly <blilly@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue July 5 2005 15:03, Charles Lindsey wrote:

> I trawled through 17893 articles in my archive, and found 721 (4%) with
> naked IP addresses in them. Of these, 481 were one particular site
> (uni-berlin.de) whose injector routinely inserted the dial-in IP after the
> not-for-mail (the same as the NNTP-Posting-Host in fact). But that still
> leaves 240 (1.3%) with IP addresses in the middle.

1.3% is about the same the fraction of messages still using a subset of
RFC 561/680/724/733/822/2822 time zone abbreviations.

[...]
> But I still think we have to allow it, for a variety of odd cases,

Do try to be consistent.  If that 1.3 percent warrants handling
IP addresses, then surely the same 1.3 percent warrants handling
the [ECMP][DS]T zone abbreviations.