From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 18:16:04 CDT
Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> writes:
> This is all a lot more stuff than is needed. Define some defaults, and
> have people use headers only if they want to change them.
This works fine for headers with technical intent; it doesn't work nearly
as well for articles with social intent. If we want to get people to use
the value of Complaints-To, it pretty much has to be on the majority of
articles; otherwise, it's just another weird header that people might be
adding themselves.
> I am not sure why we need more than the currently unused tail entry of
> the path line which was meant long ago to be the user ident, for all the
> stuff proposed.
It's a lot harder to encode data into that sort of space, plus it won't
work for Complaints-To because people don't know how to parse it.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>