From: Brad Templeton (brad@main.templetons.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 1999 - 15:58:50 CST
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 04:12:12PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > mvgroup src=old.group; dest=new.group
> > mvgroup src=old.group.*; dest=new.group.*
> > mvgroup src=old.group.*; dest=new.group
> > mvgroup src=old.group.g1,old.group.g2; dest=new.group
> > mvgroup src=old.group; dest=new.group; +alias
> >
> > Easy to extend, self documenting. What's to oppose?
>
> Let's see, the more complex parsing?
If you think that's particularly complex, I'm surprised, but the point is
it's standard, same as all other such headers, so you are supposed to already
have a parser.
> The fact that you have shown +alias > as positional parameter?
How so? It is not positional above, it's a request to add an alias.
> My lack of ability to come up with a sensible
> extension which doesn't invite use of another (existing) control message?
The whole point of extensible formats is you can't think of the extension
at the present time!