Re: Auxiliary Header surprises...

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Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Sat, 28 Sep 1996 21:16:58 -0500 (CDT)

#
# Oops, that one was me. I was very surprised to discover I was one of
# the miscreants. I would encourage *EVERYONE* to check whether they
# are.
#

That would be helpful and one of the reasons I decided to post it.

# These could be useful additions in my case.
#
# Copyright: 1994, 1995, 1996 by Martin J Leese
# Distribution: Unlimited
# Maintainer: Martin Leese <mleese@omg.unb.ca>
#
# Can anyone think of reasons not to include them? Are the value parts
# sensible?

I like the Copyright: and Maintainer: since it makes sense in terms of
an FAQ posting (not to mention that they seem to be in widespread use
already ;-) ).

The only problem I see is that there is a RFC 1036 specified Distribution:
header. Having the same header in the auxiliary headers with a different
meaning might be confusing. 

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