>> Now having said that, I'd very much like to see a set of guidelines for >> mailing lists that discouraged munging of originator-supplied content. >> But I think we're going to be stuck with subject munging for a while.
Hmmn. Where I live, the goal of a standard is to codify existing practice so that multiple implementations can interoperate. The idea of a "standard" that starts out by declaring common practices used by many (these days probably the majority of) existing implementations to be non-standard is risible. If you want a list to pass through messages in pristine form, you and do so in fully RFC compliant form as single-message MIME digests. The fact that nobody does so suggests that this is only a best practice for a new and unfamiliar version of best. Keith, it would really be helpful if you would look at the history of DK and IIM, since I doubt there's anything to be said on subject munging and list survival that hasn't already been said, several times. It would save a whole lot of time if we could refer back to previous discussions rather than having to spend a month resuscitating the horse, killing it, and beating it to a grease spot on the ground yet again. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly. _______________________________________________ ietf-dkim mailing list http://dkim.org
