From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Fri Feb 27 2004 - 09:05:44 EST
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > What says that the result of PREPEND must always be a message header?
> >
>
> Reasonable user expectations. Most if not all uses of "PREPEND" are
> headers that support desktop spam filtering or special handling in
> downstream MTAs or content filters.
>
> "PREPEND" is largely useless for MIME Entity headers and I can't think of
> any useful semantics for PREPEND in the message body. One wants to tag the
> header to indicate suspicious content in the body, but inserting into the
> body is almost certainly both not helpful and wrong.
>
In summary the meaning of "PREPEND" should be "prepend header to message"
(as with access(5) semantics of "PREPEND") even when the action takes
place in the "cleanup" server. This will be much more useful and intuitive
for all users. "Prepend content before current line" is not IMHO useful.
-- Viktor.
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