Re: Keywords for "SMTP Service Extension for Content Negotiation"

At 01:39 -0700 on 07/15/2002, [email protected] wrote about Re: 
Keywords for "SMTP Service Extension for Content Ne:

>  > Frankly the method of returning capabilities in a bounce
>>  message seems more effective and more reliable because it doesn't rely on
>>  intermedaries.
>
>The problem I see with depending on notifications is another one of those
>"looks good on paper" things: For whatever reason, support for sophisticated
>handling of notifications has been slow to materialize in user agents.

Agreed. OTOH, since the client is going to have to handle CONNEG in 
any case, adding a notification parser to the mix as part of the 
CONNEG implementation is a different issue since it is not adding the 
notification parser to existent support but adding new support that 
INCLUDES a notification parser as part of its implementation 
requirements. Note that I am not advocating or rejecting a 
notification parser solution but only pointing out what I perceive as 
a fallacy in your analysis of the issue.