ietf-nntp BCP for RFC977 server/RFC1036 interaction

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Mon Apr 7 11:46:53 PDT 1997


> I'm not sure it's even worth formalizing what should be in the
> NNTP-Posting-User header; after all, only the server that put it
> there can really "trust" it.  [...]

> Of course, I could always put in

>    NNTP-Posting-User: concordia-hack 21298127446124

And in fact you may want to.  Any bets on how many ad-spammers are
taking NNTP-Posting-User and NNTP-Posting-Host with an @ between them
for their lists?

Of course, using RFC1413 means that you get whatever the posting-host's
RFC1413 daemon returns, which may be an opaque token anyway.

					der Mouse

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