Re: New Internet Draft: draft-duerst-archived-at-00.txt

> > Is this extension for email readers or for web browsers?
> Neither, or both.  It's an extension to the message *format*, not the 
> protocol.  Applications may use it (or not) as they see fit.
While that might be true in principle, it's not true in practice.  A 
mail reader is much more likely to be able to make effective use of an 
IMAP URL than an HTTP URL.  And it's more likely to do a good job 
handling a message/rfc822 resource than with a text message encoded as 
text/html.  There's something perverse in asking a mail reader to fire 
up a web browser to read an email message.  And for some strange reason 
I think that extensions to the email format that exist for the purpose 
of reading mail should be usable by mail readers.