[Mailman-Users] Re: remove this?

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On 5/8/01 1:21 PM, "Bill Warner" <lww at ictech.net> wrote:

> At 12:47 PM 5/8/01 -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>> You should have made those comments to the standards committee. The RFC is
>> the RFC.
> 
> What RFC?  

2369. 

>> (hint: any DECENT mail client can be configured to show or hide header
>> lines...)
> 
> But that's not the point.  (Not mine anyway... :-)  I can't see any valid
> reason why Mailman should force me to inflict these headers on my list
> readers.  

That's because you haven't looked into the reason yet.

Those lines are there to help mail clients build automated interfaces to
list operations. It's a new, emerging standard. The only way you get mail
client authors to support it is if the mail server authors also support it.
If you just say "this does nothing" and hack it out, then you're right, it
never WILL do anything, because you'll have botched the reason for the
standards. 

At best, it's a minor short term irritation for a long-term improvement in
how mail lists operate.