On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Cyrus Daboo wrote: > Right - we still use the ACAP vendor registry for the actual vendor token > but there would be no 'vendor.' prefix in the keyword. > > PS We should probably choose something other than '%' for this since that > would be a little ugly with ANNOTATE. Any of '#', '@', '^', '&' etc would > be fine, but not '*' or '%' sine those are wildcard matches in annotation > entries and would thus have to be escaped.
Any of this is fine with me. Perhaps "^" would be best of these since it doesn't have any other meaning in IMAP. AOL et al who used keywords for vendor purposes can't be blamed for what they did, since they didn't have any guidance. That's our fault. We should correct that situation, and move to get vendor use of end-user keywords deprecated over time. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
