At 20:02 09.09.00 -0400, Al Costanzo wrote:
Hello Harald,
.....which brings us straight back to the MAILCAP debate about how to get
more info about a mail recipient than his address.
I starting to feel like I'm missing the point. Why is this needed for
LZJU90?
I see no need....
It's kind of a tangent, but an important one.
As Chris Newman said, deploying a new content-transfer-encoding WILL lead
to situations where the sender does not know whether the recipient can
handle the new content-transfer-encoding or not.
The alternatives are, roughly:
- Send in an old c-t-e, in which case you have no benefit
- Ask people, and keep your own list of who handles what
(possibly by sending in the new c-t-e and fielding the enraged complaints)
- Perform techno-magical invocations to find out whether he supports it or
not.
The MAILCAP stuff is about making the third alternative possible.
Harald A
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