usefor-usepro-01 September 2004
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7.2. Duties of an Injecting Agent
An Injecting Agent is responsible for taking a proto-article from a
posting agent and either forwarding it to a moderator or injecting it
into the relaying system for access by readers.
As such, an injecting agent is considered responsible for ensuring
that any article it injects conforms with the rules of [USEFOR].
In the normal course of events, an article that has already been
injected into a Netnews network will never pass through another
injecting agent. So, if an injecting agent receives an otherwise
valid article that has already been injected (as evidenced by the
presence of an Injection-Date-header, an Injection-Info-header, or
more thath one '%' path-delimiter in a Path-header) it MAY choose to
reject it, but otherwise SHOULD cause it to be relayed, as it stands,
by a relaying agent (7.3).
In exceptional circumstances (e.g. as part of some complex gatewaying
process, or where a relaying agent considers it essential for
fulfilling its responsibility towards the rest of the network) an
already injected article MAY be "reinjected" into the network. This
standard does not prescribe any such circumstance; rather this is a
matter of policy to be determined by the administrators of each
injecting agent, who have the responsibility to ensure that no harm
arises. In all other circumstances, unintented reinjection is to be
avoided (see 7.9). Nevertheless, in order to preserve the integrity
of the network in these special cases, this standard does set out the
correct way to reinject.
It is usual for an injecting agent to be closely associated with a
serving agent, thus giving it access to the list (7.4) showing the
moderation status of the newsgroups it is likely to handle. In the
event that it does not have such an associated serving agent, it MUST
maintain that list itself.
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--- ../usefor-usepro-00/Duties_of_an_Injecting_Agent.out August 2004
+++ ../usefor-usepro-01/Duties_of_an_Injecting_Agent.out September 2004
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
matter of policy to be determined by the administrators of each
injecting agent, who have the responsibility to ensure that no harm
arises. In all other circumstances, unintented reinjection is to be
- avoided (see 7.8). Nevertheless, in order to preserve the integrity
- of the network in these special cases, this standard sets out the
+ avoided (see 7.9). Nevertheless, in order to preserve the integrity
+ of the network in these special cases, this standard does set out the
correct way to reinject.
It is usual for an injecting agent to be closely associated with a