On 8/10/2010 3:25 PM, J.D. Falk wrote:
On Aug 1, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
Comments? And if you agree, your rationales in either direction? (I'll
take Daniel's text at that link into account.)
Weighing in a bit late...I think this approach should be included in the
document. It's an entirely reasonable approach with some existing
implementations, and it may not be as surprising to end users
I claim that it not only is surprising, but that it is extremely confusing.
I'm
glad to pursue a discussion of cognitive models for average users and suchlike.
That some implementation do it does not make it useful.
To the extent that the document is, well, documenting existing practise, then
fine, although I'll urge that a caveat be included about unknown efficacy.
To the extent the document is making recommendations, I lobby quite hard
against
citing From: field re-writing.
No doubt there are some scenarios in which it's ok to do, but I claim that
typical mailing list usage isn't among the set.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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