>Another point: Is it useful to retrieve the untagged mailbox value? 
>(E.g. could that be a way to patch, say, ezmlm?)

Yes, that's the only benefit I can see to standardizing the syntax.

> If it is, it would be helpful to have a syntax that delivers a good
>level of confidence that a given token is a BATV-tagged
>representation of some tagging scheme even if that was not known at
>implementation time.

First, let's see whether we expect other tagging schemes.  The more I
think about it, the less likely I think it is.

R's,
John


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