Received: from localhost by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id SAA23539; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 18:55:42 -0400 X-Resent-To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU ; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 18:55:37 EDT Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id SAA23521; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 18:55:32 -0400 Message-Id: <199509242255.SAA23521@CS.UTK.EDU> Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE by SEARN.SUNET.SE (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9186; Sun, 24 Sep 95 23:55:36 +0100 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin ERIC@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2b/1.8b) with RFC822 id 5940; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 23:55:36 +0100 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 23:48:05 +0100 From: Eric Thomas Subject: Re: Comments and Resent-* header fields To: Robert Elz cc: drums@CS.UTK.EDU In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 25 Sep 1995 07:59:17 +1000 from Robert Elz On Mon, 25 Sep 1995 07:59:17 +1000 Robert Elz said: >No, any time there is a need, whevenever. People are still working on >standardising road signs, children's toy safety, character sets, ... all >of which have been around much longer than 13 years. If differences >cause confusion, the right thing to do is eliminate the differences, as >much as possible. It can often take years to discover these areas of >confusion. You're absolutely right. This is why, ever since the US formally switched to the metric system, butter has been sold in convenient packages of 227g, 453g and 907g, eliminating once and for all the very unfortunate confusion between two systems that had been around for much longer than 13 years. I don't see any reason not to do the same with Resent-* fields, since our charter gives us this ability. Eric