Re: [EAI] Discussion of draft-ietf-eai-mailinglist-01.txt

["Charles Lindsey" <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:18:41 -0000, Philip Guenther  
<guenther+eai at sendmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Charles Lindsey wrote:

> > So which of these headers is likely to be looked at an acted upon by  
> > some software that need to understand them? What is current practice  
> > here?
>
> Pine notices the headers and provides menu items to unsubscribe,  
> subscribe, ask for help, etc.  Here's the screen for the mailing list  
> commands it gave for your message.

Cool!

Would it be possible for you to check what it does if it sees several URIs  
in one of those headers (e.g., does it only give access via the first, or  
does it allow you to pick the one you want, or does it explode)? And what  
happens if it sees an address in UTF8 (%hex encoded within the URI, of  
course)?

Not that we can base our standard just on what Pine does, or course, but  
if it can be shown that most current MUAs at least handle these cases  
gracefully, then that could suggest a way forward to where an UTF8SMTP  
upgrade to those MUAs could do the whole thing right.

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