Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <ILo8JG.81p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Not if you are a relaying agent. All USEPRO says is that it SHOULD check
>for the presence of all the mandatory headers. Clearly, it needs to
>identify the Newsgroups, Path, Message-ID and Injection-Date (or Date)
>headers, because those affect what it has to do next. I don't think there
>is much point in its worrying about a missing Subject.

I omitted Distribution from that list and, since that header is usually
absent that will usually mean scanning right down to the end of the
headers, just to be sure it isn't there.

I grant you that some relayers will know they don't need to look at
Distribution. But note that they are all supposed to refuse to pass on
"Distribution: local", so strictly speaking they should all be checking for
that (however, it might be reasonable to assume that such articles would
already have been weeded out by an injecting agent).

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