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Re: Non-ASCII hdrs: Encoded-Variables Redux

1991-10-20 03:10:23
John Klensin writes:
  Not the point.  Point is, how you keep the two sets of bound headers 
(reference and target) connected as things gets transformed, added,
munged/trashed,... 

OK. So the point is: In much the same way that we have no control over
MTAs out there to try to send 8-bit SMTP through them, we also cannot
control the various pieces of software out there that form a reply to
a message by extracting certain headers, and so on.

Should we then conclude that the From, To, etc headers must be
self-contained?

In that case, even the Smart/Freed proposal does not satisfy the
self-containedness requirement:

        Header-Charset: mnemonic / quoted-printable
        From: Keld J&o/rn Simonsen <keld(_at_)dkuug(_dot_)dk>

If the From line's info becomes separated from the Header-Charset
line, is the & an &, or is it a mnemonic introducer?


Still trying to be reasonable,
Erik