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
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