Bron Gondwana <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I've seen the argument of "what if you want to forward a copy on to
> someone else for inspection, whatever" - without forming a new copy
> of the message.  That's actually really hard to do in the current
> universe, because the headers will make it look extra spammy.

Use the Resent-* headers. (Pine/Alpine gets this right, though it uses 822
semantics rather than the better 2822 semantics.)

> All that's really missing is a way to form a "new" message from an "old"
> message without necessarily downloading everything first - but that's
> what the Lemonade CATENATE stuff was for.  Build a new message,
> potentially including the old one as a message/rfc822 attachment, and
> then send that.

message/rfc822 is also good. IMO every message that is forwarded or
top-post replied should use message/rfc822 attachments rather than doing
some fucked up redaction of the original message.

Tony.
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