Re: The Distribution-header

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From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 16:18:18 CST


Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Charles Lindsey wrote:

>> Therefore, FIX 3 says "just leave out negative-distributions entirely".
>> All problems cases then disappear.
>> My recommendation would be to adopt FIX 3.

> I'd support that. Distributions are often used incorrectly now; that
> can only get worse if the wording describing them becomes much more
> complex, which it does with negative distributions.

I've been in favor of this fix for a while, so I'll support this as well.
If, later on, someone comes up with a compelling application for negative
distributions, it's easy enough to write an experimental draft specifying
them.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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