ietf-nntp MODE READER

[Charles Lindsey]

In <yl65qfclu3.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>Juergen Helbing <infstar at infostar.de> writes:

>> 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.

And again for the record, in the current USEFOR draft changing the
Message-ID is a SHOULD NOT. And there is an Injector-Info header to take
over the job of X-trace (and a bit more).

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