Re: AOL changing subject headers?

[Adam Bailey]

On 7/11/00 5:57 PM, Bernie Cosell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
>On 11 Jul 2000, at 16:20, Adam Bailey wrote:
>
>> I have written to the people in the know, and confirmed that it is an 
>> HTML issue. They do not know if and when it will be fixed, as it was 
>> implemented intentionally.
>
> [...]
>
>> Unless this impacts a lot of people, it may not be changed. The problem 
>> AOL is trying to combat appears much more significant.
>
>I'm missing something --- what 'problem' are they trying to combat?  
>What's the terrible problem with having a proper URL in a Subject line?

AOL's mail system is heavily HTMLized, but without using variant 
content-types. Thus, putting <something> into a mail message has the 
potential of being interpreted as an HTML tag. So AOL added the leading 
dot, to make sure that wouldn't happen.


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