[Tagdb] TagCamp 2005 trip report

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 11/7/05, Chris Lott <chris.lott at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/7/05, Bill Ward <bill at wards.net> wrote:
> > Tags: emailtags tagcamp
> >
> >  On 11/7/05, Chris Lott <chris.lott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Wouldn't the best solution be an X-tag: header or something similar?
> >
> >  Yes, if the clients supported that.  Since they don't, we would need to
> > support tagging in the message body or it's too much work to ever make it be
> > widely adopted.
>
>
> But no clients support the schema now, why not put them in the
> (arguably) "right" place? Every client *allows* X-headers, don't they?
>
> It just seems like the right way to go if you expect clients to--
> eventually-- have a place for tags just as they now have a place for
> subject, from, to, etc...

Bill's suggesting that its a chicken and egg problem, and that putting
it in the message body is an easy way forward.

Then again, most mail clients hide X- headers for a reason; my dad
would just be confused by a Tag line.  ;-)