Re: #1416 Injection-Date: proposed diff

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

>> Not if he's using POST he doesn't, and if he's not using POST, he's not
>> reinjecting.

> Yes, but even if the mail is sent to a site where your configuration
> causes POST to be used, it is still pretty easy to inadvertently
> misconfigure a sys file so that the effect happens. And it may be an
> awful long time before the guy recognizes that he is misconfigured.

I don't know if I'm just not being clear or why we're having so much
trouble communicating.

If he has *any* software installed on his system *anywhere* that will
taken an existing post and reinject it, he has reinjection software.  He
therefore knows he has reinjection software and it is his responsibility
to configure it to do the right thing (and the right thing does not depend
on hierarchy or where the post is going).  It is not possible for him to
be doing reinjection and not know it.  Regular news software does not do
reinjection.  He has explicitly installed and configured software to do
that, and that software can therefore be configured appropriately.

It doesn't matter whether it's possible to accidentally direct posts to it
or not.  That's not at all the point.  The point is that there's normal
news software and there's reinjection software and it's quite clear which
is which.  There's no ambiguity about what a particular piece of software
is doing.

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