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Re: Angle brackets surrounding Content-ID

2004-10-16 07:29:32


On 2004-Oct-13, at 13:51, Charles Lindsey wrote:

You have mentioned transcriptions which MIGHT occur. You mentioned no
examples which HAD occurred, nor any current software which could cause
them to occur.

I am aware of no such software, and doubt that any such software exists.

I feel it's a flawed understandig of what a standard SHOULD be: It's not a summary of what the old and known software actually does. It should describe the best way what should be done how. A standard never is up-to-date as long as improvements are possible. A standard is never complete since you can't (and should not) describe every possible risk.

But it's a bad idea just to ignore something that may become a real problem: Defining what a right-hand-part actuallly is and how it has to be formatted seems to be a reasonable idea.

I'd wish someone would have done the simple thing to define e.g. "Re: " for replies. Up to then most software should have been well behaved, using "Re:" only. But since that time every software engineer seems to be eager to create his own local language option here...