Ken wrote: > - Traceability - I mean, why is this an issue? Who would really care?
I count four people who have responded that they do. I might have miscounted, but obviously some do care. > - Polluting the namespace - I mean, also ... really, is this a thing we > should have to worry about? Yes. > If it happens, and it seems like it's easy enough to prevent. It's easier to not pollute it in the first place, and use Nmh- going forward. > These are pretty abstract concepts to me; I'm trying to see how this > really would impact anything. But, you conceded: > I mean, yeah, it's not something we should do > Also, copying other art ... the few MUAs > that do stuff similar to this (mutt is the prime example I could find) > use headers for this purpose without any special prefix, and And messages used to have a couple of handfuls of header lines. Now they're 3 to 4 (of my) screenfulls, and some have names like X-AOL-IP, X-Pobox-Relay-ID, X-MS-Has-Attach, x-ms-office365-filtering-correlation-id, X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped, x-forefront-antispam-report, X-GMAIL-LABELS, X-GMAIL-THRID, and X-GMAIL-MSGID. So I don't buy your point about prior art. At all. > and no one seems to care. I care. And others have indicated that they care. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
