Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:03:35 +0800
From: Adrian Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Format
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:20:09PM -0700, Raymond wrote:
> Whats wrong with this maillist?
There are a couple of annoyances related to SVList operations:
* An extra copy of header fields in the main body.
* Unconventional list sub/unsub procedure, leading to the need for a
fat list trailer
But SVList commits one major faux pas:
* Mangling and/or stripping of headers it can't handle
Look at the headers of any five messages on this list. Notice the utter
uniformity -- and lack of resemblance to the ones your MUA generates.
Just two examples:
[1] Because SVList is a remailer, it effectively creates a new copy of
each incoming message. Hence, the Message-ID field of every message
on this list is replaced by a new SVList-generated one, that bears
no resemblance to the one your MUA generated.
[2] Because the Message-ID field is now different, SVList strips off any
In-Reply-To and References fields since they don't make sense
anymore. This breaks threading on all MUAs (and this is the
only list I subscribe to that mutt can't thread).
- Adrian
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