From: Ralph Babel (rbabel-rfc1036@babylon.pfm-mainz.de)
Date: Wed Sep 17 1997 - 10:19:06 CDT
Brad Templeton about the "User-Agent:" header:
> To be strict, more commonly we are identifying the article
> composing software, which is in fact what we want to know
> about. Technically this could be different from the
> newsreader.
Great, so wouldn't we really need _two_ version
headers? After all, the newsreader may pass information
to the article-composing software, and both may comply
with different revisions of the standard.
"Injecting-NNTP-Version:" and "Relaying-NNTP-Version:"
should probably be next, as these entities may well add
header lines to an article as well. When will we see
"Signature-Generator-Version:"? "UUX-Version:"?
"OS-Version:"? How about "Editor-Version:"?
"TCP-IP-Stack-Version:"? "Ethernet-Driver-Version:"?
"X-MimeOle:"? Oh, we already have that?