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Subject:    Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman headers (was Re: New RFC on using
From:       "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen () xemacs ! org>
Date:       2011-10-29 10:31:01
Message-ID: 87d3dgozru.fsf () uwakimon ! sk ! tsukuba ! ac ! jp
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Murray S. Kucherawy writes:

 > So your perspective is "why bother [distinguishing List-Agent from
 > User-Agent]", basically?

If you put it that way, yes.  There sure does need to be a reason to
bother.

 > That's fair, I guess, but at the same time, what's the harm in
 > making the distinction?

Maybe there is no distinction to be made, in which case making an
artificial distinction is creating confusion where there was none
before.

Eg, I can just see someone arguing that when Mailman generates a
message (a rejection, a password reminder, whatever) it's a
User-Agent, while when it simply relays it's a List-Agent.

 > If for some reason something down the road wants to indicate the
 > two separately, this would make it easy.

Let that "something" write the RFC, then, when it's got a reason for
increasing congestion of the namespace.

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