Re: Stupid quoting...

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 19, 2007, 09:50 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706191048570.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <86sl8owfqj.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

Hi,

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Don't just throw away backwards compatibility, only because it does 
> > not fit your wishes.
> 
> There is no backwards compatibility involved here _at_ _all_.

I was not talking about Git here. The specification for SMTP is not going to change just because you want it. There are still mail servers out there which speak 7-bit, and the standard requires you to cope with them.

Ciao, Dscho