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

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <87r6p8x140.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>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.

Not that I know of. But the inventors of that header wisely included a
SHOULD NOT use it in News, and we should either invoke that by reference,
or specify it explicitly. And it is a good idea for injecting agents to
check for its absence, and for sure it needs a mention in the Security
Considerations.

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