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Re: [Emailcore] Navigating 5321bis (and predecessors)

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Sun, 10 January 2021 03:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Emailcore] Navigating 5321bis (and predecessors)
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--On Sunday, January 10, 2021 03:21 +0000 John Levine
<johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

> In article <306A848BA9E6BE7CC38465E3@PSB>,
> John C Klensin  <john@jck.com> wrote:
>>> I think an index is useless nowadays, since page numbers are
>>> not a univocal reference anymore (they only appear in PDFs
>>> and are presumably going to depend on paper formats.)
> 
> Indices don't have to point to oage numbers.  They can refer to
> section numbers or unsing this new-fangled web thing, they can
> link directly to the relevant sections.

That is more or less what the portion of that note I actually
wrote (as distinct from the quote from Alessandro above).  Did
that not catch up with you and the list?

    john

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