Re: Injection-Date and reinjection

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <45B0DA9F.9060003@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Forrest J. Cavalier III" <mibsoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Russ Allbery wrote:

>> We need to say *what* other header fields it will rename.  I think we also
>> have to allow for drop as well as rename; for example, if I'm posting to a
>> disconnected INN server and then gatewaying those articles to Usenet, my
>> local trace information is entirely irrelevant and there's no reason to
>> retain it.

>Isn't that permitted by the last SHOULD?  Why is the trace information
>entirely irrelevant?  It isn't any more irrelevant than opaque trace
>information from all the other servers.

Yes, my preference is to preserve all the Path header, even early parts of
it that recorded its progress through some private system before getting
injected into Usenet. It will do litle harm, and may help unravel some
complicated cases where things have gone wrong. That is why Usepro-06 said
SHOULD preserve the old Path during reinjection. Then you get to see the
full story of exactly where it has been.

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