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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Kmail Bug very annoying
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2004-08-27 8:02:07
Message-ID: 412EEA7F.1040606 () telegraph-road ! org
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André Somers wrote:

>On Thursday 26 August 2004 22:51, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thursday 26 August 2004 22:39, Willy De la Court wrote:
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>>>and some delivery software running under qmail. Contact your ISP and tell
>>>them the messages they deliver are not RFC compliant. This can be fixed
>>>by adding an -f option to the preline command.
>>>      
>>>
>>Come on, you know how utopian this kind of reasoning is.
>>    
>>
>How is that?
>  
>
Seriously, most ISPs would never even process such a support request. It 
would be remarkable if an ISP was even capable of understanding it, 
actually.

>>When did that become more important than usefulness ? Konq can display
>>broken pages pretty well, why can't kmail do the same thing with a simple
>>text message ?
>>    
>>
>I think following standards *is* important, as you'll get unpredictable 
>behaviour otherwise and the program will get bloated with exceptions to the 
>standard. 
>  
>

Well yes, welcome to the real world :-). Following standards certainly 
does not preclude a program from handling non-standard compliant data, 
simply because the program will have to, sooner or later. So the 
question of how you handle that data has nothing to do with supporting a 
standard, it's purely a useability issue, and it's true for any kind of 
program.

-- 
Guillaume
http://telegraph-road.org

 
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