From: Terje Bless (link@tss.no)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 15:37:04 CDT
On 04.10.00 at 09:03, Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>In <20001002071026.403.qmail@kairos.algonet.se> sommar@algonet.se (Erland
>Sommarskog) writes:
>
>>Problem is that that would be a mail agent, which is not covered by this
>>standard. For a Posted-and-Mailed header to be meaningful, it would have
>>to be part of the mail standard.
>
>We are talking about news agents that also have an emailing capability. So
>I think our draft is entitled to say how they should operate in that mode,
>especially when the email arises directly from some news activity, such as
>a followup.
We are specifying header fields that are pimarily for news agents, but we
know that these often interact with mail -- that's why we try to stay
compatible with mail in header field definitions -- so we say what the
intended interpretetion of these news header fields are to be in email.
What email clients do with them is not really our concern, but I expect
mail will adopt them if they are found usefull.
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