Re: #1479 USEPRO 3.8: Whether moderators SHOULD retain message-ID

Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]> writes:

>>   4.  Moderators are encouraged to retain the Message-ID header field
>>       if it is valid, and also retain the Date header field unless it
>>       appears to be stale (72 hours or more in the past)
>>
>> Charles wanted a SHOULD for retaining message-ID. Nobody else commented.
>
> I also reckon a SHOULD is better for the message-ID.  It would prevent
> duplicates from being posted in case the same proto-article is posted
> twice (therefore sent to the moderator with the same message-ID).
> Useful for both auto-moderation bots and manual moderation.
>
> And they are encouraged to retain the Date: header (no need for a SHOULD
> here).

To provide some additional history, the reason why the draft currently
says encouraged and not SHOULD is fallout from a global decision when I
proposed the alternate draft that became this one a while back, namely to
avoid any protocol requirements on moderators since, in practice, no
constraints are placed on what moderators can do.

Looking back on this several years later, I don't feel the passion for the
current position that I used to, so at this point I don't really care,
although I do think encouraged says all that's really necessary to say.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>