Ned Freed wrote:
>> >>For entities where the original data contains trailing whitespace,
>> >>the entity should be converted to quoted-printable. For example:
>> >
>> >
>> >> Here is a line with some extra spaces at the end =20
>> >
>> >
>> >>And lines that start with "From " should cause the entity to
>> >>be CTE'ed in quoted-printable:
>> >
>> >
>> >> From=20 here to eternity.
>> >
>> >
>> >>To avoid the potential of intermediate systems from escaping
>> >>the "From " by prefixing it with a ">".
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I am in complete agreement with all of these suggesions.
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>> Really? Our first principle was "do no harm to existing rendering".
>> Changing the body in *any* way violates that. Full stop. We seriously
>> do not want to go there.
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>
> Reread the suggestions. Nobody is suggesting that the body content
> actually be
> changed in transit. Rather, what is being suggested is that if you're
> going to
> use a strict canonicalization scheme it might be a good idea to initially
> construct the message in a way that obviates the need for certain well
> known in
> transit changes.
Are you suggesting these as additional caveats to section 5.2.1?
They're not my suggestios, but yes, they need to go in there somewhere.
Ned