RE: metadata proposal

[Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis mindspring net>]

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Christopher Curtis wrote:

> > 	Specifically, if users go adding comments, icons, etc. to a file. In
> 
> To answer your question: "users" cannot add metadata to a file, only file
> "owners".  Any user who wanted to annotate a file would have said data
> stored in a personal database, and this personal database would not be
> able to live inside the file system.  It would *have* to live on top,
> either in a home directory or in a /var/mail style directory.

Can you guys please start up a separate mailing list to discuss the
metadata issue?  It really has gotten to the point that it does not
belong on the main GNOME list, I think.

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