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- From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
- Subject: Re: Massey's world-class News system (was: Re: Kaypro 10 boot disk)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.065144.24787@acme.gen.nz>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 06:51:44 GMT
- Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- References: <GNAT.93Jan22145155@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz> <1993Jan19.230940.3449@massey.ac.nz> <1993Jan20.195001.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <hrpsdj.63@pnv.palm.cri.nz> <1993Jan21.114928.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1993Jan21.204746.583@acme.gen.nz>
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- gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
-
- > Craig (kilroy ...) writes:
- >
- > > BTW, you also said something about how Extremely Wicked it is that Massey's
- > > news system doesn't conform to all the relevant guidelines. Quote me a single
- > > (current) RFC that says that any message emitted from Massey is
- > > non-compliant.
- >
- > RFC 1036 (Usenet messages):
- >
- > |2.1.1. From
- > |
- > | The "From" line contains the electronic mailing address of the
- > | person who sent the message, in the Internet syntax
- >
- > RFC 822 (Internet text messages):
- >
- > |6.2.2
- > | [...]
- > | When a message crosses a domain boundary, all addresses must
- > | be specified in the full format, ending with the top-level
- > | name-domain in the right-most field. It is the responsibility
- > | of mail forwarding services to ensure that addresses conform
- > | with this requirement. In the case of abbreviated addresses,
- > | the relaying service must make the necessary expansions.
-
- Nice try Nat, but in the case of the section from RFC1036 it's easily argued
- that news@massey... *is* the person who sent the message (after all, at some
- point in the news process Massey's system thinks it is, hence the from line).
- And I'm still trying to figure out the relevance of the RFC822 quote. It's
- entirely possible there isn't any.
-
- So all we've established is what I said in the first place. Massey's articles
- may be inconvenient and annoying, but they're hardly illegal (in the Usenet
- sense).
-
- - k
- --
- Craig Harding kilroy@acme.gen.nz ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
- "Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
-