Re: [exim-dev] Changing received_header_text default?

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 10:03 +0100, Michael Haardt wrote:
> As I said, there is no consensus on this. Let's note that, following
> the result of past discussions on RFC 2822, we won't agree on it, too.

Quite possibly -- and that's why I said 'my answer'.

I was just interested to see if I was missing a good reason why an MUA
would _want_ to mangle its input rather than displaying what was
actually sent.

I can see the justification in the case of MIME errors where we can
guess at what was intended and fix it up. I can see the justification in
the case of a small display window, which cannot easily display text
which was generated with the assumption of an 80-column display. But in
the _common_ case I just don't understand why you'd want to mess with
it.

Strictly speaking, UK law permits taxi drivers to urinate against the
left-hand rear wheel of their carriage. Yet, in general, they do not
take advantage of this. They don't argue that "we're allowed to do it,
so we're going to"; they merely refrain from doing it because they don't
really have to and it doesn't make much sense.

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dwmw2