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Re: Transparency

2005-09-08 10:00:20

Paul Smith writes:
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.

No. But maybe it should provide some gentle guidance, so a formerly too common bug becomes less common. I, too, have several times (with different products from different vendors, even well-respected ones) seen dots near the 73rd column of a line disappear.

I think an example might do the trick.

Arnt

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