Re: Checking `Reply-To'

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> I've just read the GNKSA review of RadicalNews, and have seen that the
> reviewer seems to require that the `Reply-To' header should be checked
> the same way as `From'.

That review was the strongest blow to the authority of GNKSA I've seen
so far.  The reviewer wibbled on and on about how much he didn't like
the user interface and what features he wished that it had -- which is
*totally* irrelevant when it comes to minimal Usenet compliance, which
is what the GNKSA was set up to do something about.

> Regardless of GNKSA, I think Gnus should perform the same checks for
> `Reply-To' as it does for `From'.  What do you think?

Well, people shouldn't include Reply-To headers unless they need to,
and if they need to, they probably know what they are doing.

The GNKSA does not require syntax checking of that header, I think.

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen