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Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-klyne-msghdr-registry-02.txt

2002-02-08 11:20:10

At 11.21 +0000 02-02-08, Charles Lindsey wrote:
There are problems with that too. The header as proposed may be dumb. But
later someone else may want to revive the same header for a different
purpose, or even revive it for the same purpose, but with a less dumb
syntax and semantics.

I do not think there is any need to ever reuse a header which
is already used in dumb ways. It is not difficult to invent
a new header for a slightly revised task, to avoid the
problem of collission with the existing header name.
Language is rich!
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Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
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