On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:11:57PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 15.09.14 09:29, Will Yardley wrote: > > Yes, but if you forget to do this, or manually mangle a line, you could > > end up generating non-compliant text. > > > > My point isn't that there aren't editors that are capable of generating > > the text correctly, but that it's difficult to mutt to know for sure > > that you have done so. > On 15.09.14 14:48, Derek Martin wrote: > > You had to understand how it works, and configure your editor to do it > > right. Most users do not want to do that, and they should not have to. > > IIUC, the message is that those users not only do not care to take care > with what they present to the reader, they just don't care. That has its > price. [...] > It amuses me when apparently capable adults blame the tool in their > hands for their own occasional incompetence.
I don't think that not understanding rfc2646 and implementing it precisely is really something that humans are well suited for. I've looked through it and read it, and I'm sure I still couldn't craft a compliant message (including trailing spaces in the right place, space-stuffing certain lines, etc.). w
