From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Nov 10 1999 - 04:42:14 CST
In <19991109135850.51245@main.templetons.com> Brad Templeton <brad@main.templetons.com> writes:
>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.
No it isn't standard. That "+alias" is not in any known Mime syntax, nor
is it in our proposed header syntax (the one which MUST be accepted, but
not USED until the world has caught up).
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