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> > > Negotiation can mean that A and B receive different messages, both stating
> > > (in to/cc) that the other received the one they didn't. Sounds very fishy
> > > to my ears.
> >
> > This is nothing new; situations arise routinely where the header recipient
> > lists don't tell the full story about who did or did not get a message
> Agreed. It's nothing new -- just more of a bad thing.
> I suppose it's okay, though. If to/cc never were truly reliable, making
> them even less reliable is no big deal. Even if it's the first time a
> Proposed Standard does it.
Hardly the first time. MIME itself has the notion of downgrading from 8bit to
7bit or from binary to 8bit.
> > or a
> > particular version of a message.
> Hm? I know that some mailing lists do rather a lot of header field
> rewriting and/or append a new signature. Are there other examples?
Sure. There's plenty of content conversion/charset
conversion/reformatting/virus removal, etc. etc. etc. going on out there
already.
Ned
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