From: S L Painting (postmaster@zedtoo.demon.co.uk)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 16:09:50 CDT
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SiKing < > wrote:
> I was just looking for something in news.answers. There are a whoile bunch
> of documents there (at least on my server) that have multiple versions of
> the same thing. I was just wondering, why is the Supercedes header option
> intead of required?
I thought this was covered in the "howto" documents, but perhaps I was
wrong. From my perspective (and in no particular order):
1. Some people mis-spell it. There is no "c" in "supersedes".
2. Not all news-readers support its generation (I know, I know,
"get another news-reader"...)
3. If a facility *can* be abused, it *will* be abused (e.g. H?pcr?me
and others of that ilk). Accordingly some news servers may refuse
to act on "supersedes" headers.
4. It's not part of RFC1036 (it was introduced in "Son of RFC1036")
so there's no guarantee that news-servers will implement it.
To summarise, it would be unusual to have a field marked as "required"
when there was a significant possibility it would not be acted upon.
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