Re: Newsgroups (was: Updated news-nntp-uri I-D)

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712111541040.17160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stanley@xxxxxxxx writes:

>"Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>>I think we decided to make no normative mention of it, but to say in
>>USEAGE how it should be used sensibly to indicate that a message was both
>>posted and mailed, and not for anything else.

>If we did, we are wrong, since current practice does not define it that 
>way.

There is current practice that way and there is current practice for it to
be used in other ways (for emailed-only replies to news articles IIRC).

Having both these practices in use at the same time produces total
confusion. Jacob Palme raised this about 10 years ago, and was all for
introducing an ID to deal with it. We warned him off with the promise that
we would fix the matter in this WG, and what I propose to put in USEAGE is
the way we agreed to fix it.

Whichever way we fix it, it is bound to upset someone, but not fixing it
at all will upset everyone.

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