From: Dirk Nimmich (nimmich@uni-muenster.de)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 14:26:10 CDT
Brad Templeton wrote:
> But if anybody else agrees with Russ that the concept of placing a
> suggested name on an article (through the use of the archive-name
> semi-header at the start of the body) is not existing practice which might
> be suitable subject for debate and inclusion in the standard as a
> proper header, speak up.
In a MIME environment it is existing practice that filenames are
suggested using a Content-Disposition header. See RFC 2183, a
Proposed Standard, for details.
| In addition to allowing the sender to specify the presentational
| disposition of a message component, it is desirable to allow her to
| indicate a default archival disposition; a filename. The optional
| "filename" parameter provides for this.
I see no need to re-invent the wheel. (Though I would not say that
this is in widespread use on USENET, but I think that most of the
mail-and-news beasts are probably able to deal with it already.)