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From: Keith Moore <moore@CS.UTK.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Another header-munging example 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 1995 19:20:43 +0200."
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 14:52:47 -0400
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> >Of  course  this requires  that  we  have  agreement that  more  uniform
> >behavior is a good  idea, and also that we can  recommend a behavior for
> >lists which satisfies most people's needs.
> 
> But we don't have agreement on that.  We have a mix of technical experts,
> mostly using unix,  and technically ignorant users,  [...]

By "we" I was referring to this working group.  "We" are technical experts 
who know what we're doing.  If "we" can agree on a common solution and
reflect that in our implementations, many (not all) "technically ignorant"
users will go along with it.   

As for the users that don't go along, well, we can't stop people from 
messing with things they don't understand.   The best we can do is to
attempt to make the recommended changes tolerant of user-induced 
brain damage.

Keith