ietf-nntp BCP for RFC977 server/RFC1036 interaction

[Jack De Winter]

At 10:26 PM 12/18/96 -0500, Rich Salz wrote:
>What's the difference betwen IHAVE and POST?  On POST the server will
>add "missing" headers and do some other special work -- mailing to
>moderators, e.g.  Can you define any other difference?

The big difference is use.  POST assumes submission, IHAVE assumes relay.

>>I do not see any reason for standard readers to need to specify a Path. 
>
>Fine.  I do.

I can see servers defining the path, but could you tell us the reasons
for the client needing the path?

>>If there are "hostile" hosts out there, then we should be spending the
>>effort to get them shut down rather than "breaking the rules" in order to 
>>let people get around these sites.
>
>Really?  Please tell me how you would handle Brad not wanting to send "bad"
>jokes to UWaterloo.  Please promise me that something like this will never
>happen again.  Please tell me why I, as a user, can't put "!synapse" so
>that you never see my postings.

I think the point was made that Paths help to track down offending
posts, or improperly implemented servers.  And what is this stuff about
'!synapse'?  Is this something in son-of-1036?

>>Gateways are somewhat trickier, in that I assume the case you mean is for
>>news-to-mail-to-news gatewaying, where you'd want to restore the path.  
>>What about posting it via ihave?  That would at least require the posting 
>>agent to have server access to the machine, something one could 
>>reasonably expect from a gateway.
>
>It would also require the gateway to know, e.g., about the moderated
>status of anything it gateways.

I am not sure about what everyone else thinks on this, but I would
want to include information about a gateway (properly noted somewhere
for trace information would be helpful as well).

regards,
Jack
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