Hi On Sunday 1 March 2009 at 6:35:44 PM, in <mid:448171083.20090301103...@pobox.com>, Bill McQuillan wrote:
> I have noticed that the TBUDL list server makes several > changes to each message that it forwards: > Adding the List-Id, etc. header fields Adding the > Current version... to the bottom of text/plain > messages Adding a new Current version... part to > multipart/mixed messages > I also notice that the Content-Type and > Content-Transfer-Encoding header fields are placed with > the List-* fields in the header and not with the > Mime-Version field where most clients place them. Looking at the headers/kludges, there is a huge difference between the message received directly and the one received via the list server. I don't see that posting the two for comparison would serve a purpose but I can later if anybody asks. > This leads me to believe that the list server builds a > new message and then after deleting the existing > Content-* fields recreates them by scanning the message > for non-ascii characters and setting the the > Content-Type field to us-ascii if that will suffice. I shall include a couple of pound signs. IIRC, that is not a us-ascii character. Here goes: ££. Wonder if it will still use us-ascii? > There is some justification for this in the Email RFCs > where it shows a preference for the simplest level > necessary when encoding a message. Clearly, TB! doesn't share that preference - so it sends using the character set you tell it to use. (-; ------------ > In a separate pet peeve of mine, it seems that this > much processing of each message would make it > straightforward for the list server to determine > whether a cut mark already exists and insert one just > before the footer if necessary. This could reduce the > fish traffic on this list considerably! <end peeve> :-) Some of the messages (for example <mid:160674186.20090213171...@optusnet.com.au>) show the list footer in a separate tab. Would that also prevent them being quoted in the event that the poster missed out his cut mark and the replier failed to trim? -- Best regards, MFPA An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.1.11 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
