[SpamCop-List] Re: Dubious FAQ entry 166.html

[Mike Easter]

Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Steven Maesslein wrote:
>
>> Most mailers describe what you (correctly ) call "forward as
>> message/rfc822" as "forward as attachment".
>
> That's sloppy, and a major difference from the receiver's POV.

> Users have no clue how to do this if their MUA supports it at
> all.

Ideally there would be a set of terms and a corresponding set of
illustrations of the structures, including the 'illustration' of OE's
forward function as well as its forward as attachment structure.

There are a lot of agents and a lot of terms used by those agents and
quite a bit of confusion.

Clearly the majority of SC users are not going to become comprehensive
on MIME structure, so whatever informational faq  -- don't forget to
limit it to 24 lines, I like that idea ;-) -- needs to just dole out
succinct information.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice 'accuracy' or correctness in favor of
some form of terse, succinct, inaccuracy.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin