Re: Mutating timezones (was: Accuracy of archie clock/Demon's clock)

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From: Clive.Jones
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 00:00

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In article <19950401.141115.83@musicbox.demon.co.uk> richard@musicbox.demon.co.uk writes:
>I fully support an *extra* header line added as a security measure, and
>perhaps X-Nntp-Posting-Host or something similar should be added even to
>IHAVE articles for this reason (the RFCs weren't written with much
>security in mind, so could safely be "interpreted" here, as they seem
>to have been elsewhere anyway!).

Absolutely not!

IHAVE is part of the Usenet news *transport* mechanism - it is
intended for passing messages between servers, not for users to submit
messages.

If a server mutilates a message it receives via IHAVE, then there is
the very serious risk that more than one copy of the message will be
out there on the net. Two messages with the same Message-ID are
supposed to be identical apart from the Path: line.

--Clive.
               (Disclaimer: I wouldn't believe a word of this if I were you...)

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From: Clive.Jones@armltd.co.uk
Subject: Re: Mutating timezones (was: Accuracy of archie clock/Demon's clock)
Date: 1995/04/03
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