Re: #1416 Injection-Date: current wording proposal (corrected)

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Lindsey <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I think the problem is combined mail/news user agents, or which there
> are a lot around. The naive user is likely to configure his agent to
> always include this header ("because it seems like a Good Idea"), and
> for the badly written user agent (or which, again, there are many) not
> to notice that the option is not supposed to be activated for News.

This header has been around for years.  Has this ever happened?  If it
has, I have no objections to mentioning it in Security Considerations, but
if it hasn't, it seems like wasted verbiage to me.

Including it as an example of a deprecated header is certainly fine.

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