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RE: Windows 95 support ?


On 26 April 2006 15:30, mwoehlke wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:04:40AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> Christopher Faylor, le Tue 25 Apr 2006 14:05:54 -0400, a ?crit :
>>>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:01:49PM +0000, g.r.vansickle@xxxxx wrote:
>>                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ tsk, tsk.
>> 
>> This really is a losing battle isn't it?
> 
> Has anyone considered reconfiguring the mail software to 'correct' this
> automatically?

  Well, it's trivial to configure rewriting of email headers.

  But we're talking about body text here, and the web archive of this list.
If you keep what you present to the world as an authentic record of what
people wrote, then there are moral and perhaps even legal implications if you
feel you're allowed to rewrite it - even in what seems a mechanical and
trivial way, the thing is that what you are then presenting in your "archive"
is in fact *not verbatim*.

  Plus the problems it would cause when somebody quotes a bit of program code
with an at sign in it that triggers a false positive and gets mangled into
non-compilable gibberish.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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