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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: INTERNIC Question
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 11:58:52AM -0400, Mark Kosters wrote: > > - Why can't they tag their email in a machine-readable manner? Tacking on > > a single -reliable- header (X-InterNIC-Data: or some such) which > > contains machine-parsable information about the message would be a > > godsend for people trying to build tracking schemes like this. > > I personally think that this header thing is a good idea. But, NSI mgmt needs > to hear it from you. If you think there is a real need for this or any > other ideas, please contact the head of customer programs - Chuck Gomes > ([email protected]). I'm thinking maybe machine readbale bodies, using, I dunno... XML tagging with a standardized, but extensible, DTD; you know, kinda like MIME? :-) This is, after all, fundamentally EDI type stuff. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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