ietf-nntp BCP for RFC977 server/RFC1036 interaction

Rich Salz rsalz at osf.org
Wed Dec 18 11:20:01 PST 1996


>2) NNTP-Posting-User: During POST: NNTP servers using identd for user
>   authentication should place the userid in a "NNTP-Posting-User", in
>   addition to (1).

*May* put it as a header, not *should.*  A "Note" could be added saying
that system administrators may optionally wish to record the ifnormation
in off-line logs.  Trusting identd is not a binary decision.


>3) Sender: During POST: if the NNTP server performs authentication (one
>   of the AUTHINFO variants), it should set the Sender: to an emailable
>   RFC822 address as returned by the authentication mechanisms.

It *SHOULD* set sender if it is different from the From header.

>2) During POST: discard any pre-existing Path:.

No.  Useful for mail/news gateways and to allow clients to reroute
avoiding "hostile" hosts (r.h.f and Waterloo)

	/r$



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