From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 08:29:12 CDT
In <408EA552.2010902@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> In <4087D7E0.5020108@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>>>There is no need for such contortions, as
>>> Followup-To: poster
>>>and
>>> Followup-To: foo@example.com
>>>are unambiguous. The first of those is legal and the second is less likely
>>>to cause problems than your example.
>> Anyway, the point is moot because neither could be introduced onto
>> Usenet at the present time because of the need for backwards
>> compatibility.
>By the same argument, Mail-Copies-To cannot be introduced.
Not so. The Followup-To-header is already defined and widely implemented,
so we cannot suddenly introduce new syntax (though in a few years time,
when agents know how to parse - and ignore - extension parameters, that
might become possible).
But that does not apply to the Mail-Copies-To header. Firstly, that header
is already in use quite widely, and all our draft does is to confirm and
tidy up that existing use. Secondly, the sky does not fall in if some
agents do not at first recognize and act upon it (because that is
precisely the current situation, and the sky is still up there).
>>
>>
>> What conflicts? I have already fixed the minor problem that you raised
>> earlier (see the new 8.6 Step 5).
>What "new 8.6 step 5"? The only 8.6 that I have access to is dated November
>2003, so can hardly be called "new".
I explained the small change I made to fix your problem at the time that
you first raised it, and the recently circulated text regarding back
references just happens to include that, since it contains the whole of
8.6 as it then stood. And sorry, it is not a new Step 5; is is just a
one-word change to the former Step 5.
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