Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id NAA01261; Wed, 31 Dec 1997 13:36:50 -0500 (EST) Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (bulk_mailer v1.7); Wed, 31 Dec 1997 13:34:50 -0500 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (cf v2.9s-UTK) id NAA01151; Wed, 31 Dec 1997 13:34:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from ester.dsv.su.se (ester.dsv.su.se [130.237.161.10]) by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id NAA01112; Wed, 31 Dec 1997 13:34:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from [130.237.150.138] (jph1.dsv.su.se [130.237.150.138]) by ester.dsv.su.se (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id TAA05926; Wed, 31 Dec 1997 19:34:28 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: jpalme@dsv.su.se (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19971231121843.14610.qmail@cr.yp.to> References: <199712300422.XAA20501@spot.cs.utk.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 18:30:10 +0100 To: "D. J. Bernstein" , drums@cs.utk.edu From: Jacob Palme Subject: Re: Rewriting considered harmful At 12.18 +0000 97-12-31, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > Note that I don't condemn mailing list owners and gateway administrators > who have decided that message corruption is the least of several evils; > but I expect that in a few years it will no longer be necessary. Agreed, with my proposal for Mail-Followup-To, no "corruption" will occur for messages which have been given Mail-Followup-To by their originators. Only messages, whose sender software cannot do this, will get Mail-Followup-To added by the list, which as you point out can have undesirable effects in certain cases. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacob Palme (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme