David Woodhouse writes:
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 07:48 -0800, Michael Thomas wrote:
David Woodhouse writes:
> We don't need to know all possible ways. We know that by far the most
> common is the addition of a few lines of text, and IIM can already cope
> with that. That's enough for us, I think. The remaining breakage should
> be very uncommon.
And... re-mailers can change their behavior to be signature
friendly too. Which ought to be encouraged for S/MIME, etc
anyway.
Yes, but we need to be very careful here. You can perhaps get away with
requiring change in a _few_ esoteric situations, but you really can't do
that for all mailing lists. You can't stop people from adding the footer
to list traffic which tells the idiots^Wsubscribers how to unsubscribe
without spamming the list with their requests.
Exactly: go with the flow on what the vast majority of
mailing lists do now, tell the problematic outliers what
they should do to be signature friendly. Didn't S/MIME
produce some BCP'ish like advice on exactly this subject?
Mike