On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:27:18 -0500, Bruce Lilly wrote:
On Tue December 21 2004 19:02, Dave Crocker wrote:
> what's the problem with mere enforcement? why must the msa create fields?
E.g. to add the mandatory Date header field if missing
(the semantics may be wrong (submission time rather than
creation time)) (the MUA might have no reliable clock
from which it could generate date-time).
this does not require that the msa create the field. if an acceptable field is
not present, the msa could merely reject the message.
my point is that the degree of creativity for an msa is legitimately highly
variable and depends entirely upon the site policies. there is nothing in the
abstraction of Internet mail that dictates narrower and more rigid assignments
of data creation.
if folks have a different view of the realities for current Internet mail,
please say so.
d/
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