On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 08:22:12 -0700 
JC Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 01:39 AM 8/17/02, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> By seeing the headers during the two stage handshake for
>> subscription.

> That's a non-responsive answer.  That isn't BEFORE subscribing, but
> during.  The answer is that unless you also have A or B, there is no
> way for them to know, prior to subscribing, what your policy is.

Hardly.  Their investigation process of, "May I archive this list?"
changes from:

  Go check an external resource

to:

  Start a subscribe process and see if it tells me not to.

They're __already__ going to be attempting a subscribe, so nothing
changes in their work flow, data acquisition model, or decision making
process.  The header check merely adds another function point to the
subscribe process, not a whole new discovery process.

-- 
J C Lawrence                
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]               He lived as a devil, eh?              
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.


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