Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Bill Janssen writes: > > > So, stripping double-quotes on the left side stays, stripping brackets > > on the right side is a no-no. > > Hrm. How about interpreting quoted-pairs? (Not that you should ever > see them, but ....) > > That is, <"b\l\o\op"@grok.this> and <"bloop"@grok.this> should compare > equal, no? Or yes?
Yes, I think. > Which leads me to ... I wonder if the way the Postel Principle applies > here isn't "you're better unifying too many message IDs because the > user will immediately recognize thread content skew, while unifying > too few will result in different parts of the thread being widely > separated in the presentation of the message set, and possibly > premature ejaculation of responses".[1] So, (without having thought > about it *too* much<wink/>) I would advocate unifying message IDs that > are likely to be (mistakenly?) "normalized" by some implementations. > > And of course, you should never see such message IDs in practice; I > don't think I've ever seen a mailbox, let alone the LHS of a message > ID, in quotes outside of an RFC.<wink/> Although I *have* seen whole > addresses in quotes. That's probably right, too. And Mark Crispin says as much. Bill _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
