Small extension to the annotate proposal

[Martin Konold]

Am Montag, 12. Juli 2004 15:13 schrieb Stuart K. Bingë:

Hi Stuart,

> > Yes, exactly! According to my understanding the annotation is used for
> > writing but the actual message is used for reading. When reading the
> > actual mime type determines the type while an extra option header might
> > hint the reader (for efficiency).
>
> If that is the case, then is the annotation even necessary? You could
> potentially ignore it, write whatever data you want, and still be
> considered "compliant"

Yes, you are correct but the annotation is indeed the hint to the client which 
format it shall use for writing. You may write other messages to the folder 
syntactically but you most probably run into trouble semantically if you 
choose to ignoe the hint. 

Last but not least the annotation is very important that we dont have to guess 
the name of the default groupware folders (think about localization)

> Maybe something like "/recommended-storage-format" would be more
> appropriate?

IMHO this would sound a little bit too weak.

BTW: Of course clients are not allowed to get confused or even crash in case a 
message in a groupware folder is bogus.

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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