From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 05:26:57 CDT
In <20001017102200.2742.qmail@kairos.algonet.se> sommar@algonet.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>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.
Such as displaying it in bright red, or in a special box, or whatever else
takes your fancy.
Or even to drop it on the floor, as John Stanley wants. If people want
such a feature badly enough, somebody will write news and/or mail agents
that provide it.
All our document does is to define the header and to encourage its use. It
is up to the customers and the writers of agents what use they make of it.
There appears to be a body of people who would like it to be provided for
various purposes.
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