Python mailing list vs. References: (was Re: My quarterly question on Design by Contract in Python...)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "LW" == Lars Wirzenius <liw at iki.fi> writes:

    LW> (On the other hand, almost all mail software is broken,
    LW> although not necessarily because of this.

John Viega said it best at LISA '98 when he was giving his Mailman
talk (sorry if I'm paraphrasing): "All mailing list software sucks,
Mailman just sucks less". :-)

But I agree with the sentiment that says Mailman should be mucking
with headers as little as possible.  I don't think rewriting
References: and In-Reply-to: falls under the category of "as little as 
possible".

-Barry