[Email-SIG] fixing the current email module

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Glenn Linderman writes:
 > On approximately 10/10/2009 8:23 PM, came the following characters from 
 > the keyboard of Stephen J. Turnbull:

 > > I don't think your use case of prepending a mailing list's topic or
 > > serial number to an unparseable subject is realistic; in all lists I
 > > know of such a message would be held for moderation, or even discarded
 > > outright as spam.
 > 
 > So if the subject is unparseable, what is the moderator to do?

That's her problem, not ours.  I can think of a number of things she
can do, starting with bouncing the mail back to sender with a note
that it was broken, please fix.  If the moderator is me, I might load
the mail into XEmacs and see if Gnus can grok it.  Etc.

If and when we discover there are "best practices" for this situation,
we should help automate them.  Until then, "it broke -- here are all
the pieces" is what we should say, IMO.

 > The more we understand/discuss about how different client can function, 
 > the better we can design the email package.

Sure, but about this level of discussion ... "Although never is often
better than *right* now" applies, I think.