Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU
To: Eric Thomas <ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE>
Cc: drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: Comments and Resent-* header fields 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Sep 1995 01:52:43 +0100."
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 11:37:06 +1000
Message-Id: <20425.811993026@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>

    Date:        Mon, 25 Sep 1995 01:52:43 +0100
    From:        Eric Thomas <ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE>

    You can't "clarify" that, say, mail servers must ignore
    Resent-*  fields when major mail servers have  been doing the
    exact opposite for 9 years and there is no alternative solution available
    *today*.

Of course we can, if that is the desire.   Like any standard
it will take time to be sensibly adopted (like your US butter
example), but having a standard that says the right things
allows the world to move towards the desired end (users can
point out to the mail server owner that it is violating the
standard, they can point it out to its author, perhaps the
server will be fixed, perhaps it will be replaced, perhaps in
the long run the standard will be ignored).

kre