[Mailman-Developers] more 2.1b3++ MIME funnies.

[Chuq Von Rospach]

>> Nope, because messages are processed for the two digests in the same
>> fell swoop.  I don't think it's ever come up before that you might
>> want different processing for the different digests, but that /does/
>> make sense.  ("Oh, TODO, please come here for a moment")

Yup. they really serve different purposes. One's designed for MIME, one 
isn't. So (now, long after it makes sense to think of it for 2.1....) 
making them separate processes now seems to make sense. but not for 
2.1. If someone absolutely positively has to have full MIME with all 
that stuff, they can force everyone to MIME digests, or do away with 
digests. to me, it's what I call a "nice to have", not a "gotta have".

> And the archive represents a history of...
>    which version of the list...
>      non-digest, text digest, MIME digest???

to me, archives always ought to represent to non-digest. the digest 
versions of things are convenient alternatives, but more or less by 
definition altered versions. Now, a GOOD archive would store all of 
that, but allow you the same general parsing restriction setup as 
mailman now does (or wil).

> I do *not* think the above musings imply "don't do it."
>

Hey, nobody said that Mailman 2.1 was "it", and we could all go off and 
stop working on it.... (giggle)


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