Date: 25 Apr 1997 20:50:00 +0200
From: kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
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Subject: Re: dicating user interface behaviour
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klensin@mci.net (John C Klensin)  wrote on 25.04.97 in <SIMEON.9704251348.X@tp7.Jck.com>:

> On Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:09:00 +0200 Kai Henningsen
> <kai@khms.westfalen.de> wrote:
>
> > klensin@mci.net (John C Klensin)  wrote on 24.04.97 in
> > <SIMEON.9704242004.Z@dataarch1.mci.net>:
> >...
> > > In order to provide best-effort MIME handling, and to make
> > > MIME-based multipart tools work in hostile environments
> > > (rather than requiring completely separate tools), some
> > >...
> > Umm. Somehow I think that the practice you describe is a
> case of the cure
> > being worse than the problem.
>
> Very often, yes.  But people will do these things and my
> main point was that we make no specific recommendations
> without considering the consequences.   People who deal
> with my outside IETF contexts are used to hearing me say
> things like "that is an interesting idea and you should do
> it if you are absolutely sure you can get it right, but I
> bet you can't get it right".  This is another only of those
> cases.

That seems to be what I'd say about it, too. Except then I don't  
understand why that has any relevance at all to the signature convention.

MfG Kai