ietf-nntp E-mail address field of LIST ACTIVE.TIMES

Andrew Gierth andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk
Mon Jul 9 08:26:30 PDT 2001


>>>>> "Clive" == Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

 Clive>   The third is the email address of the entity that created the
 Clive>   newsgroup, and must be a "mailbox" as defined by RFC-2822 (but
 Clive>   ignoring the "obsolete" syntax).

It's common for this field to contain something other than an actual
email address, often simply "newsmaster" or "actsync".

(In fact my code doesn't bother to store the address at all, and
simply has "newsmaster" hard-coded into the LIST ACTIVE.TIMES function.)

-- 
Andrew.



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