From: bwarsaw at cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:10:28 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Python mailing list vs. References: (was Re: My quarterly question on Design by Contract in Python...)
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>>>>> "LW" == Lars Wirzenius <liw at iki.fi> writes:

    LW> (On the other hand, almost all mail software is broken,
    LW> although not necessarily because of this.

John Viega said it best at LISA '98 when he was giving his Mailman
talk (sorry if I'm paraphrasing): "All mailing list software sucks,
Mailman just sucks less". :-)

But I agree with the sentiment that says Mailman should be mucking
with headers as little as possible.  I don't think rewriting
References: and In-Reply-to: falls under the category of "as little as 
possible".

-Barry




