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Moderation fowarding wording for injecting agents (was: Protocol changes in draft-allbery-usefor-usepro-00)

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> Fri, 29 December 2006 21:37 UTC

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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: ietf-usefor@imc.org
Subject: Moderation fowarding wording for injecting agents (was: Protocol changes in draft-allbery-usefor-usepro-00)
In-Reply-To: <JAHJs5.FHC@clerew.man.ac.uk> (Charles Lindsey's message of "Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:04:53 GMT")
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Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

>> This section says more than just that, and I think the change makes
>> more sense with more context:

>>   7.   If the Newsgroups header contains one or more moderated groups
>>        and the proto-article does not contain an Approved header field,
>>        the injecting agent SHOULD forward it to a moderator as
>>        specified in Section 3.4.1.  If the article cannot be forwarded
>>        to a moderator for some reason, it MUST be rejected.

> OK, the wording could be better. How about:

>    7.  If the Newsgroups header contains one or more moderated groups and
> 	the proto-article does not contain an Approved header field, the
> 	injecting agent MUST either forward it to a moderator as specified
> 	in Section 3.4.1 or, if that is not possible, reject it.

Yup, that looks better to me as well and it's even shorter.  Changed in my
version.

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

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