On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:15:35PM +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote:
IMO, a mailing list software should *never* alter the content of a message. If someone wants an email address to show up, he should have the right to do that.
But when its somebody else's email address that you are showing? Like the first line of a quoted message ...
We can start off with this. Then we can start autowrapping long lines, and maybe fix microsoft smart quotes (I've already got perl one-liners that do both of these).
Let's focus on email harvesters for the time being ... we can introduce the other in a phased painless manner ;-)
I don't believe changing the content of a message is The Right Thing to do.
Agreed ... but if making a policy is going to benefit users on the list, then why not!
Sameer.