Bart Schaefer writes:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:47:24 -0500, Keith Moore
<moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> wrote:
furthermore, you don't seem willing to accept or act on negative
results, as evidenced by your continued insistence on using LIST:
despite having been informed that it confuses one widely used mail
user agent.
It confuses Gmail, too. Gmail displays the recipients (and addresses
the replies) as LIST, ietf-822
I suppose as a well-behaved beta-tester I should report that as a bug.
Perhaps. But group syntax has been so little used in the past years that
IMO it's better to kill the syntax than to try to support it. As a
feature, group syntax simply isn't carrying its load.
IMO, the best option would be to issue a short RFC saying:
1. Mail senders SHOULD NOT generate group syntax.
2. Mail receivers are urged to test that they can parse empty groups,
since several current senders generate that, e.g. "To:
unknown-recipients:;" and "To: ietf-announce:;".
Comments?
Arnt