Re: fixing the current email module

Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:45:09 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.mime.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Oct 10, 2009, at 5:20 PM, R. David Murray wrote:

> The other is a Glossary[2].  I think most of it accurately reflects  
> the
> consensus here, but in it I'm proposing to use the term 'transfer- 
> decoded'
> for #3, and 'transfer-encoded' as an alternative to 'wire-format' just
> for symmetry.  Comments and suggestions welcome.

wire-format is potentially misleading because the RFCs define line- 
endings as CRLF, but we accept system native line-endings, and  
sometimes output them too.

ready-for-another-can-of-worms-yum!-ly y'rs,
-Barry
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