Derek Martin wrote in <[email protected]>: |On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 01:48:07AM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> Why the Content-Length Format is Bad (a humble opinion) |> |> https://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html |> |> More from 1996 thus. And super current on-topic. | |Yes, 1996, but the only thing that has changed since then is that |there are a lot fewer upstart e-mail clients doing it their own way, |since e-mail is a fairly well-solved problem.
ha-ha-ha-ha! |> I have expressed Dr. Fink's wishes in the past. | |And I have already rebutted those ideas back in August when you posted |them. It's nonsensical bunk. I implement two fixed and one variable approaches now, will give a hint when parsing detects problems, and let the user decide. I think that is the best that can be done. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
