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What do you recommend as the format? Comma-delimited? My personal website has been serving this since he died, but I'd like to also add Iain M. Banks, as someone else here suggested.

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Comma-delimited is probably the way to go. RFC 7230 §3.2.2 establishes that you may combine multiple header fields with the same name by joining the values with commas (noting that as a special case for historical reasons, it isn't safe to do this with Set-Cookie).

That is,

    X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
    X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Lain M. Banks

should be equivalent to

    X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett, GNU Lain M. Banks

Iain, not Lain.

Or is some inside joke whooshing above my head like a deadline?

Yeah, the interents needs a Banks memorial meme. Maybe not a clacks overhead though, it wouldn't make terrible sense.

I'm trying to think of something fitting from the books- perhaps there's something civs leave behind when they sublime? Something reminding those crazy conversations between ships in Excession that could be added to IRC channels?

"I Sublime, I Sublime, I Sublime"

NB I have tried it, didn't appear to work :-(

Surely there's room in Unicode for Marain characters?

"Error 601: Insufficient Gravitas"

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