From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Mon Jun 28 2004 - 23:34:30 CDT
Frank Ellermann wrote:
> IMHO John and Bruce have demonstrated that this "unstructured
> structure" leads to contradictions, and a clean solution is to
> accept the structure.
I believe you may have missed something -- I'm certainly not in favor
of imposing structure on Subject (I've tried it, and it leads to too
many problems), and I'm pretty sure John isn't either.
> I'm pretty sure that no server or gateway looking for "cmsg"
> recognizes =?us-ascii?Q?csmg?=, but I test with this article.
And indeed if you think about it a bit you may realize that you have
found a way to begin an article's Subject (for some definition of
begin) with "cmsg" without triggering the gateway Bogeyman. And
without "Re:".