Extra Header field

[Stuart K. Bingë]

On Monday, 12 July 2004 14:53, Stuart K. Bingë wrote:
> On Monday, 12 July 2004 14:46, Joon Radley wrote:
> > What is the purpose of the trash folder? It allows the user to recover
> > from deleting the wrong item, be it mail, contact, note, etc. If you
> > argument is valid then there should be no trash folder at all. :-)
>
> No - as I said, we're not dealing with traditional email; there is a
> confirmation step between pressing "delete" and the object actually being
> deleted, whereas with mail pressing delete puts the object in the trash
> folder. At least, that's the convention I've seen used in the clients that
> I've used - the trash folder holds deleted emails.
>
> Anyway, I guess it can happen that way, but then our whole /folder-type
> annotation is useless as we'll have calender entries, etc, in a so-called
> "mail" folder. And if we're going to be parsing every object to see what
> format it is, then /folder-type becomes pretty redundant.

Apologies, I am actually wrong about this. I see the "deleted items" folder is 
actually a special case.

To get back on track - couldn't you add the appropriate header when deleting 
the object?

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