[Mailman-Users] Redundant headers in digests

[J C Lawrence]

On 29 May 2002 21:06:25 +0200 
Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham at dev.InTechnology.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 20:56, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> A MIME digest should contain unedited versions of the constituent
>> messages.  Why?  That way it can be burst back into the discrete
>> messages just as if the subscriber had received them that way in the
>> first place (and is the way digests are and were intended to be
>> used).

> Definitely.  What is the situation for "classic" digests though.

I'm not really sure.  The RFC doesn't touch the area.  Standard practice
seems to be to trim the headers down to just the basic 7.  That still
allows the messages to be burst and replied to retaining the
References/In-Reply-To headers, but keeps the visual clutter down.

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