On 11 May 1999, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> What the MUA should do is find the most recent subscription confirmation
> from the SOS list, and follow the instructions in _that_ message. This
> is why I proposed putting a List-ID field into every message; it lets
> the MUA reliably keep track of the latest information for each list.
I can't resist the temptation...
What happens when List-ID is out of date? (Even if changing the id is
strongly discouraged, nothing in the world can prevent it. According to
Murphy's laws, this means some change WILL happen.) What happens if the
instructions in the most recent message the user has received (!= the most
recent message sent) are out of date? :)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"NSA GCHQ KGB CIA nuclear conspiration war weapon spy agent... Hi Echelon!"
