On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:
| RFC2119 says:
|
| 3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
| may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
| particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
| carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
|
| I've never had anyone explain a valid reason for ignoring the part of
| RFC2822 which says you SHOULD include a message-id header, and explain
| how they carefully weighed the implications and decided to omit it. I've
| only ever known it be omitted by accident, which _is_ a clear violation
| :)
Absolutely. Aside from discussions of Message-ID: header, going against
something the RFC says you SHOULD do requires a valid reason.
A whim is not good enough!
--
Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service
