[ih] Reporter query on the history of greater-than in quoted replies

[dhc at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)]

On 7/22/2018 1:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>From my experience it's not only persistent but also necessary, resulting
> from the continued use of Unix mailbox
> fromat in all kinds of mail UA implementations.


It represents a basic failure to keep a local hack local.  It's fine if 
the local implementation needs to do something special to preserve data 
integrity.  It is NOT fine for that modification of the data to escape 
into the wild.

While the particular example is benign and even a bit amusing, it 
highlights the need for implementation efforts that make changes made to 
incoming data to reverse them on outgoing data.

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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