On 2/11/2015 7:37 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Only because it already has, except for the RFC, and

     http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/ietf-mail-attributes.html

mentions the definition of "X-No-Archive: Yes".

In practice, I believe most of the standard (Mailman's Pipermail[1],
mail-archive.com, GMane) and large-scale proprietary archiving engines
(Google and Yahoo! Groups) already do.

  > I wondered if this had been done already somehow, or considered and shot
  > down, and how others handle the problem.

I'm not sure why Palme's I-D wasn't taken to RFC (Informational)
status; probably it just was considered insufficiently authoritative
since new headers are being invented all the time, eg, X-Spam and
relatives aren't in it).

There is an IANA registry for message header fields (see RFC 3864 for registration procedures). Of course, I don't know how many people who write email libraries on any position in the spectrum are aware of this in the first place, so adding X-No-Archive to that list is not likely to matter one whit.

--
Joshua Cranmer
Thunderbird and DXR developer
Source code archæologist

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