In message Wolf K wrote:
On 2017-12-16 19:36, nospam wrote:
In article , Wolf K
wrote:

the only plot is that you're wrong (again).
[...]

You jut love saying that, doncha.

when someone is wrong, yes.

as usual, you snipped the entire context and have nothing better to do
than attack.

You don't read context,

yes i do, and unlike you, i stay on topic.

You _mis_read context. Repeatedly. Hence your irrelevant comments about
MIME. I was addressing the topic of "Should metadata be included in a
file or stored outside it?" Some people said no, some said that depends.
I said yes, and used data packets as an example of why metadata should
be included with the data.

Packet routing information is not metadata since it has nothing to do
with the data contained in the packet. I ti snot data about the data, it
is data about the packet.

Network data transmission at any level
requires data packets that carry metadata with them

No, they require data about the packet.

else they can't be assembled by the recipient computer(s)

that's still data about the packet.

into the file that's being transmitted. You can disagree with my
stance, but misreading the purpose of my example won't get you to a
good argument (and there are some).

Your example is poor since metadata doesn't apply to any part of your
example. It's a bit like using an elm tree as an example of a fruit.

until Dave Empson's post that gave examples-of. It is very instructive,
and I've saved it for further study.

Dave only had to post that because you and others kept arguing about
something you knew nothing about.

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