Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 16. august 2005 22:05 +0000 Charles Lindsey <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> > - Permit : in "diagnostics", not in "identities", and add some
> > appropriate  note with warnings on what will happen to DEAD:BEEF:CAFE
>
> But given that the "dead/beef" problem has not been eliminated by your
> proposal, what do you actually gain by forbidding IP-addresses in
> "identities"? The cat is already out of the bag.

(politeness off)
Yes, IP addresses will occur in Path. They already do (v4), and any system 
that doesn't pass on articles that contain them is so broken that it's got 
no business passing itself off as an USENET server.

> You are bolting the
> stable door after the horse has bolted (so I shall nip it in the bud :-)
> ). [Sorry, joke might be hard for Norwegians, but Englishmen with a
> smattering of Irish politics should get it.]

Your own statistics proved positively that using IP addresses for 
IDENTIFYING YOUR OWN SYSTEM is a very rare occurence, if it occurs at all; 
we have no idea why those IP addresses you couldn't divine a purpose of 
were in the Path: of the articles you looked at.

Saying that giving a name to your system is REQUIRED by the standards is a 
Good Thing, and allows us to positively refuse to allow such idiocies as 
using an IP address to identify your server in injection-info.

That horse has not yet escaped, but not because we've been flogging it to 
death in this group (proving that I can mix metaphors too, but otherwise an 
useless addition to this message).

                       Harald