MType vocabulary design principles

[Mark Taylor]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, John Taylor wrote:

> unregistering.  The reasons we define different MTypes for different jobs
> are
> * So that a sender can dispatch a message to an app and have some reasonable
> expectation it will be acted on (particularly important if that sender is a
> human) since the sender has declared an interest in it
> * So that recipients don't have to be interrupted for messages they have no
> intention or capability of acting on

thanks John, those nicely sum up the other side of the coin from the
rules of thumb that I suggested.

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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