From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 05:38:44 CDT
In <200210071812.g97ICIsp027204@bean.epix.net> "Forrest J. Cavalier III" <mibsoft@epix.net> writes:
>"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>
>> And in the few places where interoperability with mail is required,
>> notably sending to moderators, it will be no solution, because what
>> the moderator will see is the ASCII tag, not the "real" name of the
>> group (because you cannot expect mail to understand the machinery for
>> translating it into 'prettyname' form).
>OK, I'll play again.
>Let's be realistic. I'm sure that 5.5.2 encoding or the ASCII tag will cause
>the moderator, who knowingly volunteered to moderate the I18N group,
>less than 1 second's worth of pause, on the very first message they process.
>(For all other messges, it will be immediately obvious what they are
>getting and what to do with it.)
Yes, but it has already been pointed out that the problem is not with the
moderator of that I18N group, it is with the moderator of some other
normal group who suddenly sees a crosspost to that I18N group, and would
like to know what group it is.
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