From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 20:11:15 CDT
In <3D892F5C.6050704@alex.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> Indeed, which is more or less the idea behind introducing the possibility
>> as widely as we can. Many possible applications have been discussed (and
>> mayy more doubtless will be), even though only two have made it into the
>> present draft.
>[...]
> > As to why "_now_", it is because we are doing it now for our own news
> > headers, which provides a convenient opportunity to consider it more
> > widely.
>This WG does not have the authority to do that to headers defined
>for email.
This WG has the authority to define what it likes regarding headers to be
used in Netnews. It may or may not be wise to take too many liberties with
headers also used in email, because of the need to so special things when
gatewaying or posting-and-mailing. But that is a practical matter,
unrelated to "authority".
So by all means let us discuss these particular headers from a _practical_
point of view.
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