[NNTP] Re: Version numbers

[Charles Lindsey]

In <Pine.LNX.4.62.0411080946200.2056 at shiva1.cac.washington.edu> Mark Crispin <mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:

>I strongly suggest that before even contemplating a version number 
>mechanism such as Clive proposes, that you look into the experience of 
>other protocols.  In particular:

>. Why is the MIME version number forever fixed at 1.0?

Because they made no syntactic provision for a header of the form

MIME-Version: 1.0,2.0

which would indicate that clients of both flavours should be able to
handle the message.

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