From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:50:31 GMT Subject: Re: Stupid quoting... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <86sl8owfqj.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Hi, On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, David Kastrup wrote: > Johannes Schindelin 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