ietf-nntp MODE READER

[Russ Allbery]

Juergen Helbing <infstar at infostar.de> writes:

> I'm aware of this case - but this seems to be one of the "old myths".
> It might be possible that some news-server-soft permits to discard an
> included msg-id and to replace it with an own one - but it seems that
> this "feature" is no longer used anywhere.  At least none of the "major
> NSPs" is ignoring msgids in posts. :-)

Airnews stopped?  Or do you not consider them to be a "major NSP"?  :)

> I'm not up-to-date with the latest draft for NNTP - but I'm strongly
> convinced that nowadays when X-Trace is used everywhere to identify
> posts properly the 'elaboration' of MsgIds should be finally forbidden.

That's USEFOR, not NNTP, just for the record.  NNTP doesn't address the
contents of the articles beyond some weak bindings to concepts such as
headers.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>