From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2004 - 20:08:36 CDT
Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The *only* difference between the way that subjects are used on Usenet
>> and the way that subjects are used in e-mail *in practice*, *on the
>> wire*, is the legacy "cmsg" thing that we're trying to get people to
>> stop relying on anyway.
> I've already named one "real" news server (news.t-online.de), where
> "Subject: cmsg cancel" works (or at least it did that the last time I
> tested it, about 2002), one ersatz-newsreader, where this is a feature
> and no bug (my own Netscape 3.x), and a dubious server (groups.google),
> where "Subject: cmsg text" wasn't archived.
Yes, "cmsg" is interpreted in practice by many existing servers.
Other than that point, which I've not disagreed with and which I do think
we have to deal with, so far as I can tell you're not disagreeing with
anything that I've said.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>