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Re: [faq-maintainers] Need to "change the rules"...

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 03:46:31 CST


        On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 14:40:19 -0600 (CST)
        Kent Landfield <kent@landfield.com> said...

>
> # Incidentally, one thing I would like to see is the movement of those
> # pseudo-headers into the main headers (USEFOR has already proposed
> # an Archive header which could be used for part of the job). The
> # advantage of that would be that FAQs could then be posted as MIME
> # multipart/digests without hiding the pseudo headers away (the problem
> # with MIME multiparts is that anything in the body up to the first
> # boundary is not seen by reading agents).
>
> This is not the time for this discussion. Once there is a base document
> then we can seriously discuss an experimental RFC to deal with this issue.
> Until then we are being counter productive. Let's finish the base rfc that
> will allow us to develop further newsgroup related "standards".

Sure, we don't want to do that for USEFOR, but it is still useful to toss
the idea around to see if people think it worth pursuing later.

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