🚀 go-pugleaf

  those of you who don't follow news.software.readers or
  news.software.b should read the following.  henry's second paragraph
  raised my eyebrow (since i suggested that nn add X-Newsreader :-(.

  looking forward to reading the rfc...  i'm sure there will be
  interesting information contained therein even for nn users.

						--bw

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Date:    04 Jan 1993 05:09:31 +0000
From:    henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: DESIGN DISCUSSION: The reference line is deficient

In article <C02wp5.8JB@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
>... Or trn could add an 'X-Newsreader:' header
>like tin... one would be able to identify conformant newsreaders from
>that.

This won't pick up on the large number of readers that already preserve
the References line.  In fact, nothing that involves adding new magic
headers will be of any near-term use.

By the way, my current son-of-1036 draft (which will be available within
a week or so; it's only slightly behind schedule :-)) says rude things
about silly headers like X-Newsreader that convey no useful information.
This sort of gratuitous waste of bandwidth, we do not need.

>The "R<id>" solution is attractive in its brevity, but the problem
>with it is that it gets us /away/ from conformance with any standards.

Indeed so.  I really think that changes to headers have to stick within
the existing rules; there is way too much software already out there,
and you can probably find something that expects strict compliance with
almost any rule you can name.
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"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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