Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> This XML format would be no more of a burden on sysadmins
> than HTML email or large attachments. Less, in fact.
Point being that any increase of message size cannot be blithely dismissed
at one level without looking at the impact on other levels.
> The word 'impossible' seems overdone.
No, it is exactly the right word. It is impossible because, and let me
put this in caps since you missed it the first time, WHEN ONE TRIMS PROPERLY
THE INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR THE OTHER FORMAT IS ***MISSING***. ***NOT
PRESENT*** IT IS ***IMPOSSIBLE*** TO PRESENT A FULL MESSAGE WHEN PORTIONS OF
SAID MESSAGE WERE TRIMMED! If you think it is somehow possible, please tell
me how one could resconstruct the trimmed portions of the message.
> Here's one way I can think of to do it, offhand: include the
> entire quoted message somewhere else (say, a MIME
> attachment to the response).
So now we're passing around a kabillion attachments? This also does not
address the other portion which is, again caps since you missed it... WHEN
INTERSPERSING THE RESPONSE OFTEN ONLY MAKES SENSE WHEN TAKEN IN CONTEXT WITH
THE QUOTE WHICH PRECEEDS IT!
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