Re: fixing the current email module

On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> Well, that is a feature of some mailing list programs.  Those that  
> want to do that, will have to decode and re-encode.
>
> However, there are definitely mailing lists that don't do that.   
> Google Groups is one example that doesn't collapse, and always  
> prepends the headers in front of Re:.  Seems like all the Python  
> lists do the collapsing (I wonder why! :) )  Other lists don't do  
> prepending (I think the RFCs recommend not prepending in Subject,  
> actually), of the others I'm subscribed to, that prepend, some  
> collapse and some don't.
>
> I'm saying that there are use cases where prepending could be done  
> without decoding; while you are positing use cases where that is  
> insufficient, but you shouldn't have said "Except"... you should  
> have said "There are also other use cases".
>
> And when you collapse Re:, do you also collapse various language- 
> specific spellings of Re: ???  that is a hard problem.

I don't disagree with any of that.  It's all firmly in the scope of  
the application, not the email package.  The email package just has to  
make it possible.

-Barry