At 5:48 PM -0400 2005-07-03, Michael Dunlap wrote:
> Developers- what was the reason for this behavior? I don't believe this
> was an arbitrary decision, so what unwanted events is it designed to
> prevent?
Features such as converting HTML to plain text, and stripping
various bodypart types, have accumulated in the code over time. In
that time, some RFC-specific knowledge has been encoded in the
resulting Python. E.g., the fact that the first part of a
multi-part/alternative is supposed to be the plain-text version.
So far, the code has focused on doing just the simple things like
stripping specific bodypart types and converting HTML to plaintext.
So far as I know, no one has attempted to generalize this process.
Without any firm evidence to back up my claim, I will say that it is
my belief that doing so will be considerably more complex than the
code that has been developed to date.
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