Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 22. august 2005 07:02 +0200 Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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".

Actually I kind of like the idea of those tricks (festooning the bare IP 
address with stuff before or after to show exactly what we think of it), 
but I totally despair of getting any consensus in this group within this 
year on exactly what the format should be.

So saying "don't blow up if you see strange stuff, just assume it's a 
diagnostic and get on with life" is, to my mind, a fine thing to say in 
USEFOR.

                Harald