Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

[Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> 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.

In other words, you propose to drop ideas where we'd protect
those servers with ugly tricks like "add dot plus keyword to
the IP, and if it's IPv6 replace colon by underscore".

And systems styling themselves as "dead", "beef", or similar
should discuss this issue with their peers, and better stay
away from any "B news" systems.  I can certainly live with
this solution.

> 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.

Also fine from my POV, my unnamed "Web cam in trouble" example
might wish to post, but it's no news server / injection agent.

> That horse has not yet escaped

s-o-1036 says "name", either FQDN or name.  No IP, no problem
(eyes wide shut, so I didn't see "case sensitive", shudder ;-)

1036 also says "name".  So that part should work, bye, Frank