From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 29 2002 - 07:33:16 CST
In <200211281931.UAA06167@message-id.pfm-mainz.de> rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de (Ralph Babel) writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> Votes are to be mailed to chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk.
>[x] No. You are known to arbitrarily reinterpret votes.
Your inability to follow simple instructions is noted.
Nevertheless, you vote has been counted.
>> Voting closes at midnight GMT on November 28th.
>Gee, it's really smart to specify a timezone, but not to
>specify whether midnight is meant to be 00:00 or 24:00.
I am not responsible for your inability to comprehend standard English
usage. In fact, you were within the dealine by a few hours.
>> Alternative #1 (STRICT EMAIL COMPLIANCE)
>> ----------------------------------------
>A complete misnomer, enough to invalidate the entire straw
>poll IMO. Are you trying to appeal to those who said they'd
>prefer full compatibility with 2822 in the previous poll?
>The only alternatives that are truly compliant with e-mail
>are #5 and #6, certainly not #1.
>> d) Include explicit requirements on how to transform
>> headers (for posted-and-mailed and moderators, not
>> necessarily for other gateways) so as to be fully
>> compliant with the email standards (that would include
>> headers in body parts of multiparts, and so recursively).
>That's the exact opposite of "strict e-mail compliance".
I published three separate drafts of the issue to the list. If you didn't
like the way the options were worded, you had ample opportunity to say so.
>> The document to be split into two - one for
>> Standards Track and one for Best Current Practice.
>Yes, _at_ _least_ two.
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>Please insert your name [Ralph Babel ]
>And your email address [rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de]
>Issue 1 - (8BIT HEADERS)
>------------------------
>#0 (the PRESENT DRAFT) [ 4 ]
>#1 (STRICT EMAIL COMPLIANCE) [ 4 ]
>#2 (8bit in MODERATED - MUST NOT) [ 4 ]
>#3 (8bit in MODERATED - SHOULD NOT YET) [ 4 ]
>#4 (SEND 8bit REGARDLESS) [ 4 ]
>#5 (ALL 8bit ENCODED on the wire) [ 1 ]
>#6 (ALL 8bit ENCODED; NO I18N NEWSGROUPS) [ 2 ]
>#X (CONSENSUS LIMIT) [ 3 ]
>Issue 2 (SPLIT THE DOCUMENT)
>----------------------------
>#1 (YES, Split it) [ 1 ]
>#2 (NO, Don't Split it) [ 3 ]
>#X (CONSENSUS LIMIT) [ 2 ]
>Issue 4 (MIME-STYLE HEADERS)
>----------------------------
>#1 (Sender only) [ 5 ]
>#2 (Sender, Date, Message-ID) [ 4 ]
>#3 (Sender, Date, Message-ID, Keywords, References) [ 3 ]
>#4 (Sender, Date, Message-ID, Keywords, References, Supersedes) [ 1 ]
>#X (CONSENSUS LIMIT) [ 2 ]
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