From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 12:30:17 CDT
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:14:04PM +0200, Per Abrahamsen wrote:
> sommar@algonet.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>
> > Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> > > 6.2. Posted-And-Mailed
> > >
> > > Posted-And-Mailed-content = "yes" / "no"
> > >
> > > [Well, do we want this header, or not?]
> >
> > I believe it is completely pointless. The information is of interest,
> > yes, but what use does it make in a header?
>
> It can automate the process. The reading agent will be able to mark
> such messages in a clear way, and the reader will no longer depend on
> whether the sender was smart enough to indicate that it was a CC in
> the body of the message.
>
> The obvious choice, the Newsgroups header, is for historical reasons
> unreliable for that purpose. A new header will not have that problem.
>
> As an extra bonus, combined news and mail agents (like MSOE, Mozilla,
> Agent and Gnus) will know they have to ask the news server when the
> user wants to see the parent message, instead of looking on the mail
But again, if we want these CCs, we request them, in which case one
presumes we want to read them, right? Or are you trying to arrange
so that people can request CCs, and then ignore them? I don't see this
as being all that important, and if it is, why not just arrange so that
the same message-id is used for both?