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Re: "proper" handling of BCC

2012-05-23 08:57:34



On 5/22/2012 8:45 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
The only way I can see for
the MUA to detect this is to look for me in the To and Cc headers and
not finding me there (and not finding a List-ID) to issue the warning.


This is the same configuration of information that occurs when you receive mail from mailing lists that do not use the List-ID field.

Hence, your heuristic will fail some/much of the time.

Since you are describing a user interface 'warning', as the action to take, it might tolerate some failures, depending upon the percentage and rate of failure. There is also the question of whether such a warning message would have any efficacy for regular users. There's good indication that it would not.

d/
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 Dave Crocker
 Brandenburg InternetWorking
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