On Mon October 18 2004 10:16, Charles Lindsey wrote:
So I have suggested a method using group-syntax that would be entirely be
compatible with the present protocols,
No, attempting to change display text into a protocol keyword is
incompatible with the text message format (both the full Standard
and the Proposed Standard), is incompatible with the Internet
Architecture and with BCP (RFC 2277), and use of named groups
is incompatible with the Standards Track Sieve protocol (RFC 3028).
It is also anglo-centric and ambiguous. All of which has been
explained, with cited references. Your claim of compatibility is
a falsehood.
but I have been shouted down.
No, you have been told that you are wrong; you have been told
*why* you are wrong, and you have been reminded that you have
been told that you are wrong and why -- in all cases calmly and
as courteously as possible under the circumstances of your
repetition of debunked false claims and displays of seriously flawed
arguments. That is not being "shouted down"; it is part of
a technical discussion. If you do not understand that you are
wrong, you can consult the references which have been
provided. If you do not understand those references, you can
ask questions.
I
note that none of the shouters has come up with a better method.
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There is no general mechanism to identify a list,
Then invent one!
Perhaps you should consider the possibility that that is an
impossible task.