On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:20 +1030, Not Zed wrote: > I still don't see what your issue is here. We just don't display it, it > isn't lost. Just like we don't display comments in addresses either.
There are two separate problems with the address lists, and one problem with X-header formatting. All are caused by the same fundamental design problem w.r.t. the way we think about user interaction. The first problem is that when I _send_ a mail with a list in the headers, that list really is _lost_. Not present in the mail which gets submitted to the SMTP server. Gone. Absent. Look for the 'To: Some people : ;' header which I just painstakingly typed into this mail. It was pure person-to-person communication as documented by RFC2822, and Evo ate it. The second problem is that even if I'd sent this mail with pine to ensure the To: header isn't removed, you'd not be able to see it. Yes, you could argue that it's not 'lost' in that case -- it's still present in the underlying mail spool. But to be honest, if a mail reader strips something from a mail it's supposed to be displaying, with no hint that information is being removed, and the user has no idea that perhaps they should try a different mail reader on this mail because there's more information there than Evolution likes to display, that information really does get lost to the _user_. And the third is the reformatting of X-headers by considering various lengths and types of whitespace to be interchangeable for the purpose of displaying text to the user, rather than only for the purpose of _interpreting_ the content of mails. Go talk to Anna about how whitespace (and borders and margins) are all syntactic sugar and we should consider them with contempt when the sender has explicitly laid something out in a way that will be readable by the recipient. Hint: don't stand too close. These are three technical issues which I'm happy enough to look at fixing. They highlight a severe underlying user-interface misconception which seems to be causing resistance to the fixes which I'm suggesting. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
