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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