From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 29 2001 - 14:23:46 CDT
Dirk Nimmich <nimmich@uni-muenster.de> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 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
> Are we? Xref is overview information, why not deprecate it as we
> did with the Lines header? (BTW: There should be a note why we
> deprecated it; otherwise that will certainly a FAQ.)
I think there are probably too many implemented news readers that expect
to be able to find the Xref header in the article headers, plus there's
Xref slaving.
Including Xref into overview is a relatively recent thing, and there are
still many sites that don't do it (it's not required).
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>