On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:10:22 -0400 Tom Neff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Friday, July 12, 2002 3:14 PM -0700 J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:
>> Given that 1153 digests don't mandate header trimming... [etc] > From http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1153.html : > Each enclosed message is a conventional message consisting of a > header and body, separated by a blank line. If they exist in the > original message header, the following lines must be retained as-is in > the reconstructed header: Date:, From:, To:, Cc:, Subject:, > Message-ID:, and Keywords:, rearranged to appear in that > order. Retaining the Summary: line is optional. Lines include > continuation lines as defined in the RFCs. All other header lines > should be discarded, especially Received lines. All leading and > trailing blank lines should be removed from the message body. The > message body may be scanned to replace with a blank the first > character of any lines of exactly and only 30 hyphens. > "1153 Got It Right"(tm) Without being excessively pedantic, in standards language there is a huge gap between "should" (as in the above quote) and "must" (as in "mandated"). "Should" items are not required, though they are recommended. Conforming systems do not have to abide by a "should" statement in a standard. >>> The one thing I wish my mail client gave me - if I do a web based >>> one of my own some day I will hack this in - is the ability to roll >>> along reading that honest text digest, and reply to the list OR an >>> individual poster (a couple of buttons in the subheader would do it) >>> without breaking stride. >> Yup. Several MUAs do that. > Great! What's an example of one? Without checking I recall that both GNUs and VM do, and that MH-E either does or can be trivially made to (since my previous post I've checked further into exmh and it doesn't but can be made to with a little effort). That said, bursting is the generically more correct approach in terms of intent and use of digests. The fact that it also makes annotation of the component messages transparent with annotation of all other messages is merely a pleasant fillip. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
