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Bullwinkle

2005-05-18, 7:49 am

When I try to set the Followup-To: header it more often than not doesn't
make it through to the news. I haven't yet determined whether this header
deletion is consistently attributable to the final remailer or to the m2n
gateway, or sometimes one and sometimes the other.

I see that my posts made through frell and parsifal have both lost their
Followup-To: header. Is there a reason why this header is not honored?
There would seem to be even less avenue for abuse with it than with the
Newsgroups: header itself. So why not allow Followup-To: provided the
groups listed are all in the article's Newsgroups: header?



admin

2005-05-18, 5:51 pm

On Wed, 18 May 2005 12:39:40 +0000, Bullwinkle wrote:

> When I try to set the Followup-To: header it more often than not doesn't
> make it through to the news. I haven't yet determined whether this
> header deletion is consistently attributable to the final remailer or to
> the m2n gateway, or sometimes one and sometimes the other.
>
> I see that my posts made through frell and parsifal have both lost their
> Followup-To: header. Is there a reason why this header is not honored?
> There would seem to be even less avenue for abuse with it than with the
> Newsgroups: header itself. So why not allow Followup-To: provided the
> groups listed are all in the article's Newsgroups: header?


At present it's dropped by the parsifal remailer. All the checks that are
done on the Newsgroups header would have to be done on the Followup-To
header, and I'm not up for doing them at the moment.

So I'll have to leave it dropped.


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