From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 08:31:39 CST
Henry Spencer said:
>> I'm confused, what do you want outlawed? Surely not experimental new
>> headers? They are the lifeblood of possible innovation in USENET.
>
> What I want outlawed is exactly what I specified: the user of X- headers
> *AS COMMENTS*. That is, as material deliberately intended to be read only
> by humans.
Humans often want to attach some metadata to an article, visible to people
who really care but not to those who just want to look at the main text.
X- headers is the only approach we have at present. Do we really want to
try to outlaw this ? How successful are we likely to be ?
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