In <p0611040abde39f4b7a73(_at_)[192(_dot_)168(_dot_)0(_dot_)182]> Jacob Palme
<jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> writes:
At 12.07 +0000 04-12-13, Charles Lindsey wrote:
Since Jacob Palme, who is the author of the only extant draft for the MFT
header, has now joined us, perhaps it would be useful for him to dust down
that draft and bring it up to date. The list of issues that Bruce lists
would have to be taken into consideration, and indeed many of them are
already addressed in Jacob's original draft.
I have now put up the latest version I have of this draft
at the web address
http://dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/draft-drums-mfwupto-01.txt.
I could also submit it again as an IETF draft if this is
wanted.
I would suggest removing any reference to Netnews before doing so.
Ultimately, if this scheme is acceptable to the email community, then
there might be extensions into the Usenet community, but let us agree on
how it would work within email first. But the functionality you proposed
for email seems about right to me.
The way I remember it, this document was, at that time, so
extremely controversial, with so many strong opinions
requiring incompatible functionality, that I decided at
that time not to do any more work on it.
Since then, it has actually been implemented in some email systems
(notably those written by Dan Bernstein). If you are going to produce a
new draft, then some preliminary discussion with Dan might be fruitful.
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