On Nov 27, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 01:29:26PM +0000, Roger Burton West said:
I should like to find the person who decided that since
"bookmarks" and
"history" were both lists of URLs they ought to be integrated in a
single database. I should like to shake him warmly by the throat
until
his head comes off.
ObJWZ: http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html
The loosely related formats specified only vaguely (or not at all)
and known collectively as 'mbox' are too broken to live.
From what I've seen, at any rate. I don't care how long it's been
in use -- "we've always done it this way" is no excuse for data
corruption. And yes, inserting garbage characters into my mail
because mbox uses a common English term as a record separator counts
as data corruption, especially when it's the same character used for
quoting.
Horribly, horribly broken. Although the format's broken isn't half
as hateful as the community's complacency allowing it to persist.
Josh
