Re: Subjects, "Re" and "Fwd" (was Re: Re: pine, and x509 certificates (fwd))
David Morris <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Mark Crispin wrote: > There is no standard for "fwd:". There may be folklore (such as the > alt.sysadmin.recovery that you mentioned), but there are multiple > folklores. If you make one folklore happy, you offend some other > folklore. While there may be a lack of standards, it would be very helpful to users if a provision were implemented which allowed users to specify handling of token-colon strings which prefix subjects. Some combination of basic heuristics, user defined token list and prompting would handle most of the situations I see. I'd be happy to elaborate, but if there is no interest from the implementation side, it would be a waste of time. A basic principle of internet design is to be precise in what is generated and tolerant in what is accepted. That principle would seem to apply here. Dave Morris _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info