RE: The subject line leakage problem

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

At 1:37 PM -0800 12/17/01, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> On the 'replace other headers', the problem there is that we end up back in
> the rat-hole. People will propose all sorts of random headers ad infinitum.

That doesn't matter because RFC 2822 allows you to add as many 
ill-conceived headers as you want to a message.

> And others will counter that there are integrity problems and then we have
> the interop issue, etc.

There is no interop issue. What I proposed was that headers found in 
the body part be *displayed* in the message, not substituted into the 
message for storage. It's a user presentation hack, not a message 
format hack.

> I don't think that the problem is big enough to require a whole new S/MIME
> spec to solve, just a minor tweak to implementations.

Fully agree.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium