Instead, what if we invented a canonicalization specifically for lists
that recognized the content munging of lists as first-class behavior
that encompassed things like l= and [] and other typical list munging?
How about if we just encouraged people who run lists to sign their mail?
This whole list signature breakage argument is a tempest looking for a
teapot. I sort my list mail by the list, not by the individual list
contributors, and I've never met anyone who does otherwise. After
scratching my head for a long time, the only problem I can imagine that
might be solved by preserving incoming signatures is a list with an
incompetent manager who allows vast amounts of bogus stuff through his
list, but for some reason people want to subscribe to it anyway and do the
spam filtering that the list mangager should be doing.
Should such a list exist, the right thing to do is to fix the list, not to
invent piles of arcane hackery so that subscribers can sort of reverse
engineer what the list should have been doing all along.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet
for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
PS: Also consider that Yahoo Groups probably pumps out more list mail than
all the Mailman and majordomo lists in the world combined, and there's no
way we'd ever be able to back out the message rewriting that it does.
Even Mailman does MIME rewriting when it adds footers that nothing like l=
could work around.
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