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~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Sat, 14 Oct 2006,
@ @ at 00:01:36 +0200, when Arjan de Groot wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:53:46 +0200, Alexander S. Kunz wrote:
>>>If I understand correctly, it implies: "you MAY use 1 instance of
>>>"Re: " in a reply, but you SHOULD NOT use other strings as it can
>>>lead to undesirable consequences".
>>That is one interpretation. :-) Another fine example of an RFC that
>>doesn't create clarity, because it leaves too much room for
>>interpretation.
> That's RFCs for you... ;-)
>>The rest? Pretty washy in my opinion. Its always *may* and *ought
>>to* - not *must*.
> Yes of course. But these RFCs have nevertheless led to some kind
> of generally accepted consensus on e-mail formatting. And that's
> what counts in the end.
>>>>Its configurable, so what. Maybe it should be off by default though.
>>> That doesn't make it any less superfluous or stupid.
>> Well, that is your opinion. I wouldn't use such hard words.
> I call it "stupid" because it serves no purpose whatsoever. No
> other mail-client that I know of understands it, no e-mail user
> that I know of cares about it. It's just code sitting in there
> for nothing.
It's pretty good and legitimate determination, since stupidity is a poor
ability to understand and profit from experience, while its antonym,
intelligence, denotes ability to recognize connections between things
and their essential relations, in experiencing them, and particularly if
those experiences are something new.
Besides, RCFs are just and only and exclusively _recommendations_, not
any form of a strict rules, or laws or anything similar. They are
actually a sets of recommended/chosen _habits_, and in no way any sort
of "standards".
Hence those who do not understand the very nature, definition and
purpose of RFCs cannot profit from experiencing them as such through the
act of reading.
Many indeed quite often mix up RFCs with standards (the things that
define quality, not a habits) and similar strict types of rules, and it
not so rarely happens even to software developers, their sponsors,
corporative customers etc.
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