From: Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 07:05:51 CDT
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> > A different option would be a 'Transmission-Headers: start' which
> > indicates that the following headers are not related to the article
> > itself, but to the transmission protocol being used.
>
> I think this is another solution based on the idea that Xref generalizes,
> sort of like the current local headers stuff. My counter-argument is that
> I think Xref is a unique problem, and would like to see an example of some
> other header with similar properties before we go to the work of designing
> someting into the standard to deal with it.
Any header which transfers news database information falls into this
category. Currently, I think no such headers are defined, but
wouldn't it be nice if we had a header which lists the direct
followups to an article? Or the expiration time?
I think it is tempting to use the article header for such kind of
information, but you could transfer it separately as well.