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Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status



Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> It's interesting (and rather eye-opening) to hear that
>> UUCP-only sites apparently don't have to check the syntax 
>> of messages

> Where do you see that ?  It would be very wrong...

That's what Charles just said.  He said that there's nothing in USEFOR
that requires relaying agents to verify the syntactic validity of
articles, even at a very basic level.

News to me, but thankfully not very relevant to me since all the servers I
care about speak NNTP.

> ...yes.  Did you read "relaying" == NNTP ?

No.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>