Sat, 23 Nov 1996 04:00:04 +0100
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On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 20:22:10 -0500 Stan Ryckman <[log in to unmask]>
said:
>Why was it done this way? Frankly, seems dumb. A change to the displayed
>"Subject" should be independent of how mail headers are actually
>presented.
The "Subject" field is part of the mail header. LISTSERV supports 6 mail
header types, plus SUBJECTHDR. This means it can need to send up to 7
different types of headers and generate 7 different mail messages (each
of which costs additional resources). With an independent option, there
would be 12 different mail headers instead of 7. With two independent
options, it would be 24 instead of 8, and so forth.
>Why isn't it an independent option? Say I'd like to get IETF headers
>with the subject line changed to have the listname inserted. What's
>wrong with that?
IETF headers are a religious issue. The very concept of changing the
subject line would violate the religious foundation on which IETF headers
are built ("Thou shalt not change the headers except to add a Message-ID:
if the message cometh from a sinful MUA that doth not provde one, to add
a Received: line with thine own host name and, if such is thy desire, to
add a Sender: pointing to the owner-xxx address").
>Also: "INFO REFCARD" is still old -- doesn't say anything about this
>option. I would think this would be updated as part of the installation.
There's a new INFO REFCARD for 1.8c but it might not have made it to the
kits yet. Documentation and code are updated separately.
Eric
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