>Quoting Joshua D. Baer (Josh@SKYLIST.net) from Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at
01:54:57PM -0500:
>> On 8/18/98, Devin Reade <gdr@eddore.myrias.com> wrote:
>>
>> So don't use in your message and it won't happen. It's not
>> a common string or anything (if we were substituting on "name" it would
be
>> another story). There aren't random body substitutions happening, it only
>> happens in VERY specific instances which are easily avoided without any
>> extra effort on your part. No one would even know about them if I hadn't
>> left the footer at the bottom of messages in the beginning.
>
>Yes, email addresses in brackets would /never/ appear on FAQs-maintainers.
>"The software is broken, change your posting behaviour so as not to
>trigger it" really doesn't seem like an acceptable solution here. Any
>mail agent that alters the body of a message is nothing but broken.
The email address in brackets substitution will be turned off as soon as
possible.
I was referring to substitutions, of which only a handful
of exact matches cause a substitution to happen (nothing a person would ever
type).
I'll do my best to fix any problems which crop up. In this case, I think
we're debating a problem which HAS NOT and WILL NOT come up, so we should
drop it for now and deal with any current issues which are actually causing
problems for people.
The outstanding issues and their status that I'm aware of:
1) Invalid Message-IDs
Currently deciding on the exact fix. Will still be a new message-id, but it
will at least be a valid format. Should be fixed in upcoming version.
2) [email address] substitutions
This will be turned off in the upcoming version.
3) Footers on the message body
Have been turned off.
4) [faq-maintainers] on subject
Has been turned off.
5) Reply-To: list address
Waiting to see what the general opinion of the list is. Can change this
anytime.
6) Invalid Received-By headers
Currently deciding on the exact fix. Should be fixed in upcoming version.
Please let me know if I'm missing anything.
~Josh
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