From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 07:18:33 CDT
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 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?
No. That's part of my point. :)
That information should be in overview or some similar meta-information
database and should be transferred via some protocol such as NNTP in my
opinion. I *really* don't like the idea of news servers munging the
article content in order to include site-specific information. We're
stuck with Xref, but let's not make the same mistake again.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>