From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 17:58:38 CDT
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:16:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
And as for that, as I said, have a default, and define a rarely-used
header to specify a complaints to if the default doesn't work for some
reason.