25 Feb
2002
25 Feb
'02
11:02 p.m.
"JRA" == Jay R Ashworth jra@baylink.com writes:
>> Mailman's interface to Pipermail is what does this check,
>> currently defined as: X-No-Archive: yes X-Archive: no prevents
>> the message from being archived in any way. I don't think
>> there are standards for this particular header (else, why would
>> it be an X- header?), so I'm wondering if I understand common
>> practice well enough. I.e. should the presence of
>> X-No-Archive: itself, regardless of value, prevent archiving of
>> the message?
JRA> This depends on which side of the "enabler" argument,
JRA> discussed ad nauseum last week, you come down on. :-)
For this particular issue, I'm happy to make it really easy for folks to make sure their article is not archived, even though I hope most people won't avail themselves of this (it harms public discourse). I can't imagine any other useful value for X-No-Archive: though, so I tend to think the value should be ignored.
-Barry