Sender: jwz@netscape.com (Jamie Zawinski)
Message-ID: <34453A6A.1F86E2FE@netscape.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:49:30 -0700
From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>
Organization: Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Division
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To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: identification of mail and news messages
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Is there any chance that 822bis could be made to say something about
either the Newsgroups or Path headers?

It's an endless nightmare that I can't look at a message and tell for
certain whether this message follows 822, or follows 1036.  

If I happen to know the transport on which the message arrived (821 or
977) then I can tell, since those protocols guarentee their message
formats; but often I can't.  For example, when I get a message from a
disk file; or when a message has been forwarded to me; or when I've
gotten the message via an IMAP server; and so on.

Currently the Newsgroups header is used in mail messages in the real
world, but is used inconsistently.  Doesn't that put it in the domain 
of something that DRUMS could address by way of "clarifying existing
usage"?

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Jamie Zawinski         http://people.netscape.com/jwz/      about:jwz