From: Martin Djernaes (djernaes@cisco.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 09:54:12 CST
Hi,
Terje Bless wrote:
>
> Martin Djernaes <djernaes@cisco.com> wrote:
> I think that if you check the archives you'll find that a substantially
> similar idea was launched during the wee beginnings of this group -- lo
> these many years ago -- and was discarded for several reasons. Mostly
> though, it was because the current solution, while not perfect, is the best
> practical compromise under the circumstances and taking historical usage
> into account.
I strongly disagree since the current situation encurrage the admins of the
news servers to discards perfecly legal messages without even taking action
to inform the poster. This is a very bad choice, and could be discurraged.
With your proposal you are pushing this wrecked view of "what should be
done".
> As a data point, the newsreaders most prone to erroneously localize the
> "Re: " prefix were then revealed to actually parse the subject field into
> tokens, treating it as a structured field though most consider it free form
> text, where the majority of user agents do the latter.
I'm not talking for or against localizing the Re: prefix, but against the
solution and the fact that this proposed solution has been taken as a card
de blac for discarding messages not applying to this view.
To be honest, the solution you suggest is not friendly to the "histrory"
nor to the state of the "standards" and it certainly doesn't apply to the
general attitude in the IETF of being open and friendly to "others".
Martin
-- Talking for myself!