Date   : Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:14:03 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Text screen?

On 12/02/2008 07:41, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <080211225504@...>, Jonathan Graham Harston
> <jgh@...> writes
> 
>> Those are a sticking plaster applied by a faulty mail server,
>> rather like sawing off leg to cure an ingrowing toenail.
> 
> On the contrary, they are a standard, as Pete has posted.   

Strictly speaking, they're not standards, merely Requests For Comments, 
though they represent the views of a body of interested parties -- in 
this case the denizens of the "List-header" and "ListMom" mailing lists. 
  They're not even mentioned in STD1, and it's interesting that while 
almost every list manager follows them, almost no mail clients do 
anything with them.  There's not even any suggestion in the RFCs that 
clients should, merely that they could.

-- 
Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York