At 7:55 AM -0700 10/28/06, Mark Sapiro wrote: > In short, it's a request that I wouldn't put any effort into > implementing unless there was overwhelming demand for it.
There's a much more basic problem -- you'd have to parse the MIME/HTML bodyparts of each of the messages being submitted, convert them to some sort of canonical form, and then wrap them in a larger MIME/HTML message. It's hard enough to understand the formatting used by a single MUA, it's quite another to have to be able to understand the formatting used by all MUAs. You might be able to get say 70-80% of the way there with a single MUA, but I don't think you could hope to achieve even 50% success with a wide variety of MUAs. I would not be at all surprised if it's basically impossible to perform this task, at least to any kind of moderately adequate level. This is the equivalent of being able to write a program that can understand all spoken/written human languages, convert them to a single canonical form, and then put them all together into a single volume. I don't know if you've ever seen Babelfish or other automated translation tools, but let's just say that, even on their best day, they are only barely adequate for the simplest of translations between the most common of languages. You wouldn't want to try to run the United Nations using such tools. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trend Micro has announced that they will cancel the stop.mail-abuse.org mail forwarding service as of 15 November 2006. If you have an old e-mail account for me at this domain, please make sure you correct that with the current address. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
