Nick Simicich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> it is not clear whether this standard should or should not 
> allow for the assertion of a compilation copyright.

In the RFC, I want to avoid making any statements about how copyright
law may or may not apply to mailing lists.  I've included an example
Compilation Copyright assertion in the examples section though.

> Which argues that one may repeat the header because one may have multiple 
> comments (for example, an assertion of copyright and a URL pointing to the 
> long policy)

Why not put both into the same header (possibly folded across multiple
lines)?

List-Policy-Archive: Ask (Compilation Copyright &copy; 2002 Example Inc.
  All Rights Reserved.  For policy details refer to
  <http://example.com/policy/will-sue-unauthorised-archivers.html>)

> They should be respected by a program no matter where they appear - in a 
> plain text section, in the mime headers, in the unlabled area that follows 
> the RFC822 headers and precedes the first mime headers, or in the top level 
> RFC822 headers.  If they are put into a html section, or a section that is 
> encoded in a scheme other than seven bit ascii (uuencode, base64, 
> quoted-printable), they must be repeated in one of the above places for 
> programmatic access.

If the policy file is HTML, it could be required that the
specifications are enclosed in <PRE> .. </PRE>.

> [..]

Many other good comments deleted, but still appreciated! :-)

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Greetings, Norbert.

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