[Design] url wrapping in email (Was: High End Email)

[petite_abeille]

On Sunday, Mar 9, 2003, at 11:35 Europe/Zurich, Blake Ramsdell wrote:

> Well, in this case, the only incompatibility would be with non-MIME
> aware mail agents, which should predate 1993 (to be conservative).

Not only that, but also MUA which don't bother going the extra mile by 
encoding things in an appropriate format when needed. Which is most MUA 
from the look of it...

>
> The alternative, back-wrapping, is a hard, hard problem -- Bob Wyman 
> and
> I worked on ConnectSoft's Email Connection back in the old days (1995),
> and we attempted to solve the problem of "did the sending agent or some
> intermediate agent do something whacky here and wrap the lines in a
> strange place, and can we fix it", with varied results.  Quoting and
> tables tend to be the ickier things to deal with.

Yes... "back-wrapping" is pretty much an hopeless exercise... oh, 
well...

> Yeah, they hate four line trailers added by the mailing list also ;).

Plus those inexcusable subject appendices: [Design], [Dev]... What are 
people thinking? Like if there is not enough noise in emails already ;-)

>  I guess we're all in trouble in one way or another.  This may be an
> important thing to understand -- "no matter what you implement, someone
> will hate it, so try to get the fewest people to hate you, or just
> implement whatever you want".

Somehow the later option sounds very appealing :-)

Cheers,

PA.

P.S.

I know this is a very sensitive issue... but... could perhaps the OSA 
mailing lists be set to add a "Reply-To" header which points to the 
list itself... because as it stands... one has to be very careful to 
whom one replies... resulting in a lot of collateral damages...