Re: List Organization

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ralph R. Swick wrote:

> why wait for a month boundary?  Perhaps a collection of message classes
> such as you propose could simply be used in the Subject headers; e.g.
> Subject: [ig:applications] My favorite new toy
> Subject: [ig:syntax] Yet another proposal
> Subject: [ig:trust] A proposal for a trust vocabulary

> Anything that adds more explicit semantic information to message
> metadata is a good idea in my book :-) 

See the X-Meta: header in this message :-).  I guess a better approach
would be to attach RDF descriptions to messages using MIME - similar to a
vCard attachment.  Whether it is worth doing in preference to the
structured Subject: header you suggest above is another matter!

Andy
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