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Re: Client-side searching proposal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Connolly)
Sat Jan 28 03:39:54 1995

Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 08:48:48 +0100
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From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
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In message <199501272227.OAA20968@hnear>, Jay Glicksman writes:
>Not to diminish Dan's point too much, but hypermail works off of RFC
>822 email archives, not individual text messages, so there is no
>"original-msg.txt" to refer to.
>
>>	<head>
>>	<link rel="original" href="original-msg.txt">
>>	</head>
>
>>	<body>
>>	message with annotations...
>>	</body>
>

I don't get it. It seems straighforward to extract a single message
out of an "RFC 822 email archive" and serve it up.

Or heck, give me a pointer to the whole archive. That's fine by me.
That at least makes it _possible_ for me to get my job done.


>Many other documents may also be derived (e.g. from data bases, server
>side includes) and have no "original" to refer to.

OK. If the source data in such a situation is completely unobservable
from the net, then I'd consider whatever byproduct is made available to
be the original. No audit trail necessary there.

Dan


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