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[Lawrence Jones]

I wrote: 
>Have you seen this? 
>
>http://zesty.ca/zest/

Well yes, you probably have since Barry posted it a few minutes before
mine went round, sry :S

Well, they do say great minds think alike... ;)

Having taken a better look at it, it's far more complex than I first
thought. It's also very rigid and requires a standard writing style
using '>'s to denote the previous message and assumes that the rest is
the author's text. It divides the whole lot into chunks and matches
replies to the text they're replying to. I can tell you now that the
users on my lists will not follow that writing style (although many to
most are non-technical users). 

I'm interested in 3 things to do with this:

1. how much it breaks if you don't stick to it's rules? Ie: how robust
is it? Can it be made more robust?

2. if implementing it would make for a change in ethos for Mailman which
reduced it's accessibility to non-technical users? This depends on 1.

not knowing much about e-mail protocols, this might sound a bit stupid:
3. does zest's design rely on e-mail in a certain format? Ie: can you
still do plain text mails?


renJones
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