Re: Utrecht archive announcement and proposal

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Martin Leese - OMG (mleese@omg.unb.ca)
Mon, 27 Nov 95 10:10:52 AST


This is good:

>> From: Henk Penning <henkp@cs.ruu.nl>
...
>> So, as discussed earlier, I propose to allow url:-lines like
>>
>> Url: http://some.site/some/file.html Latest
>> Url: http://some.site/some/file.html Author's home page
>> etc

This is better:

>> From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
...
>> Url: http://some.site/some/file.html "Author's home page"

This is not good:

>> From: Nancy McGough <nancym@ii.com>
...
>> Latest: http://some.site/some/file.html
>> Author's home page: http://some.site/some/file.html

For the reasons stated by:

>> "Lennart Regebro" <lennart@bump.traffic.is>
...
>> The key to a successful standard is to make one that is simple *and*
>> flexible. Yours [Nancy's] is simple, but non-flexible. Hank Pennings is
>> flexible, and (in my opinion) simple. I do think it's *ugly* but I
>> can't really find any better solutions.

By the way, headers are not, and are not meant to be, pretty.

Sorry Nancy,
Martin
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