Doofus wrote:
> Since one of the points of this thread seems to be to highlight the
> incidences of people blithely advising "do as it says at the bottom of
> the post" to other people who evidently can't see anything at the bottom
> of the post, then to argue "oh yes it is there as long as you know which
> spells and incantations to cast in order to see it" seems to me to be
> unfairly bogging down the novice with unhelpful pedantics. Especially
> when the kind of person incapable of unsubscribing from a mailing list
> is unlikely to even know what you're talking about when you tell them to
> view the raw message.
Point is that there is a different condition between it being there and
the client failing to show it. How? Because if it wasn't there *NO* client
would show it. Just because one, or a few, clients don't show it doesn't mean
all don't show it. It's called being precise in reporting problems.
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