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

Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I'm willing to support the global position that moderators do what they 
want, so all we can do is encourage them. That would place this item 
into "no change needed".

                 Harald