> From: John C Klensin [[email protected]] > > Randall Gellens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > At 6:19 PM -0400 7/13/11, John C Klensin wrote: > > > >> Content-type: text/noise; > >> noise-type="bogus-legal-disclaimer", charset=... > > > > Ooh, I like this proposal. We can also have noise-types for > > exhortations to not print the email. > > If one starts down that path, there is a real possibility for a > semantically-rich environment. For example, consider a noise > type for flaming, repetitive, responses to a topic on the IETF > list. One could also very efficiently reflect what I assume was > the intent of a recent observation on the list with > noise-type="hitler" :-(
I, personally, am looking forward to the extended discussion regarding the proper procedures for deciding upon and registering new values of the "noise-type" parameter. I believe that there are a number of subtle conceptual and syntactic distinctions that need to be clearly delineated, with due consideration for global cultural differences. Dale -- cephalopod9 wrote: Only on Xkcd can you start a topic involving Hitler and people spend the better part of half a dozen pages arguing about the quality of Operating Systems. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
