In backups2datalad we ran into a behavior that addurl --raw does not only not considers all the fancy handling for youtube and .torrents, but also disregards our (git-annex-remote-datalad) external special remote (although still CLAIMURLs it first). I think generally we would still prefer to use --raw as to avoid possible side-effects when someone manages to add some .torrent file which we want to add as a file, not to download it. But we would like to explicitly allow interactions with our special remote. That is why I think the most viable solution would be to provide --raw-except which would be like --raw but allowing explicitly listed special remotes (or hardcoded keywords like :torrents:, :youtube:) to be handled if encountered.

done --Joey