On 9/10/2012 1:47 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
Michael Richardson {quigon} <mcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Let me suggest that at the IETF, where the mailing list is king, you can't join the Elite if you can't quote email properly. Maybe we should *state* this.
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message/rfc822 attachments don't work. If it did it would be a much better way to do forwarding and top-posting repliesthan at present. (For instance, Outlook can hide those horrible confusing email addresses rather than stripping them out.)
Plaintive humor notwithstanding, this all starts to look as if some sort of BCP or even protocol "profile" is warranted, to describe preferred practices in the creation and interpretation of RFC5322 objects within "conversational exchanges".
I'd be happy to participate in a specification effort, assuming community interest.
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net