[Email-SIG] fixing the current email module
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Fri Oct 9 14:25:15 CEST 2009
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
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