From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 05:22:00 CDT
Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk) writes:
> Indeed, but in this case there is no real problem because the only action
> we expect is for the receiving agent to display it in some way. A
> news-only agent might have some facility to recognise it and display it in
> bright red, whereas a mail only agent might just give you the usual
> behaviour of allowing you to select which headers you wished to say (as
> most of them do).
Other people on this list say that they want this information in the
header because it's "structured information", and it appears that they
want their mailer to do something magic with it.
If the only point with including this information is for display, the
body is a far more better place, because in the header it will be
hidden. (Either not shown at all, or drowning in the abundance of text.)
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se