[Pan-users] Re: Problems with some replies

[Jim Henderson]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:38:56 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:

> On 12/12/2008 Jim Henderson wrote:
>> If so, the provider limiting references to 2 is not RFC compliant
>> (except, obviously, for root messages and replies to the root message).
> 
> Not all NNTP servers are RFC compliant.  One of the groups I follow is
> self-moderated.  If you don't know what to do, your post is supposed to
> go to the "moderator," which is just an auto-bot that rejects
> everything.  I understand that there are a number of people using the
> group on non-compliant servers and wondering why the regulars never
> respond to them...

True, not all NNTP servers are RFC compliant, but Pan does comply to 
GNKSA which means it generally will behave in a way that does comply with 
the RFCs.  If a provider's setup is not RFC compliant, I could see that 
causing a problem.

Jim



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