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Re: Transparency

2005-09-08 09:41:14

At 16:32 08/09/2005, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
    Sometimes users complain about missing dots.  The message they
    send is formatted similar to this:
        "This is some text... Hello there."
    and their mail client actually send it like this:
        "This is some text..
         . Hello there."

In that case, the mail client is broken, and needs fixing. The standard shouldn't encourage broken implementations, and shouldn't go out of its way to hide broken behaviour.


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