From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 08:32:09 CST
In <200302150535.h1F5ZaiS007674@melon.epix.net> "Forrest J. Cavalier III" <mibsoft@epix.net> writes:
>USEFOR already had this discussion. The problem with quoting
>those numbers is that they are not random failure rates.
>For certain messages between senders and recipients, the failure rate
>would be 100%. The standards must provide a way for those recipients
>to figure out which piece is not standards compliant, and fix it.
Yes, but that is only important with names in From-headers (and there you
always have the addr-spec which is always ungarbled). So a given person
who regularly posted to a newsgroup that you read would always get garbled
(or not) in the same way.
It is much less of a problem with Subject-headers which are much more
random. You would only notice it during the lifetime of a single thread,
and you would have to wait for a further 99988 threads on average before
it happened again.
And on top of that, this only happens for people who _choose_ to violate
the prososed standard. If you put garbage in, and get garbage out only
0.012% of the time, you really have not much to complain about.
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