Re: Control message propagation

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Lindsey <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> I now have:

>>   Exceptionally, control messages creating or removing newsgroups
>>   (newgroup or rmgroup control messages, for example) SHOULD be relayed
>>   if the affected group appears in its Newsgroups header field and the
>>   sending agent would have supplied and the receiving agent would have
>>   received the newsgroup affected by the control message had it existed,
>>   even if it currently does not.

> I presume that is intended to go after the current 2nd paragraph of 3.5.

> In which case, since that existing paragraph clearly indicates that it is
> a matter of the configuration of the sending and receiving relaying
> agents, you might as well continue with that terminology. So perhaps:

> "...if the affected group appears in its Newsgroups header field and the
> sending agent and receiving relaying agents are both configured to relay
> a newsgroup of that name (whether or not such a newsgroup yet exists)."

This seems like an uncontroversial improvement in wording (and it's
shorter!).  Changed in my copy, omitting the "yet" at the end since this
also applies to rmgroups and it may well be that the newsgroup was just
removed.

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