Re: Proposing a standard for subject header

Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:12:30 -0400

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Joao Nunes <jd.nunes@mail.telepac.pt> writes:
> it seems to me it would be a nice standard, at the
> moment adopted by just a few, to post the version or date of last change
> in the subject header.

I believe this would break the archiving software at rtfm.mit.edu,
which uses the subject field as an index key. With the date in
there, no new copy of a FAQ would replace the old...

The existing standard is to use a Last-modified secondary header to
carry the date of last change. Offhand I see little advantage to
promoting the date into the subject field; it's not *that* critical
a piece of information, and most FAQ subject lines are overly long
already.

regards, tom lane

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