Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On 2012-03-26, at 12:26 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:

>> Well, what if GNU Mailutils folks buy these changes? Then they would
>> have to change the header fields to mailutils-* which would be annoying.
>> Worse, it would then make the header fields incompatible when in fact
>> they would be compatible.
> 
> This header is just an implementation wart ... it's really only to
> communicate between different programs.

And this is why it's wrong to pretend they are headers.  It leads to exactly 
this sort of misunderstanding.  I still say the syntax should chance so there's 
no confusion as to what they really are – meta commands to nmh programs.

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