On Sat, 5 May 2001, Ian Clarke wrote:
> Someone told me that there would be no metadata permitted in 0.4 CHKs.
> If this is true then it needs to be rethought - I can imagine no reason
> why client-side metadata would not be permitted. For example, it would
> prevent web browsers from displaying documents referenced by CHKs.
>
> Is this true?
Okay, I'm the idiot who started spewing these silly ideas. The resolution
here was that:
1) CHKs too small to be split may contain DMI. They are small
anyway, so they won't clog the network.
2) SplitFiles may contain DMI in their separate metadata. The
