Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <87u0hgaafu.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>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.

>*NNTP* says that you can't send malformed junk,

Does it? I see where it says that servers and clients MUST accept
well-formed articles, but where does it say they MUST reject malformed
ones? Surely they can use "garbage in, garbage out" if they don't actually
fall over in the process.

In any case, well-formed in the NNTP-sense means little more than that the
header has a name, a ':' a SP and a CRLF at the end and uses the folding
rules properly. No requirement to check detailed USEFOR syntax.

Note that the present USEPRO requirement for relaying agents was changed
to "SHOULD check for the presence of all the mandatory headers" fairly
recently as a result of discussions on this list. It used to be rather
stronger.

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