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Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1)
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1) |
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Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:38:01 -0400 |
lyndon wrote:
>
> > On Oct 10, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I am going on prior art here; specifically, Fcc. I don't see the value
> > in adding an Nmh- prefix to any Nmh-specific header. I realize this is
> > something that there is not universal agreement on.
>
> It's a simple namespace issue. These headers escape the nmh
> environment. Being generic, other software might attribute other
> meanings to them, and do unexpected things. Putting everything
> behind "nmh-", and advertising we do so, mostly eliminates the
> risk.
>
> This means, moving forward, we only generate nmh-* headers, while
> continuing to accept the old ones.
>
> This is particularly important now that "forw -mime" is becoming
> the default; these headers *will* escape now.
why? how? it seems to me that you have to work pretty hard to
get them into the wild -- mhbuild will eliminate them normally, won't
it?
paul
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paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 49.5 degrees)
- [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Paul Fox, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Paul Fox, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1),
Paul Fox <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), David Levine, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Paul Fox, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), David Levine, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Paul Fox, 2016/10/13
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/13
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/13
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/13
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/13
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1), David Levine, 2016/10/13