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OK, who's right here. It can't be the MSFT folks can it.
- dan
P.S. Well, I just passed 1000 messages behind, so I think I better
flush the buffers and start trying to catch up on new threads. I'm
giving two speeches in Tokyo this week, and am going to see if I can get
into any events at Nagano this weekend.
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> Title : Don't Go Postal - An argument against
> improperly overloading the HTTP POST Method
> Author(s) : J. Cohen et al.
> Filename : draft-cohen-http-ext-postal-00.txt
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> Date : 16-Feb-98
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> As time goes on, more and more groups are extending HTTP's
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> method name for new functionality or to overload an existing one such
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