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Re: Windows 95 support ?
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, George wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:43:03PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > On 26 April 2006 15:30, mwoehlke wrote:
> >
> > > Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:04:40AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > >>> Christopher Faylor, le Tue 25 Apr 2006 14:05:54 -0400, a ?crit :
> > >>>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:01:49PM +0000, g.r.vansickle@xxxxx
> > >>>> wrote:
> > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >> tsk, tsk.
> > >>
> > >> This really is a losing battle isn't it?
> > >
> > > Has anyone considered reconfiguring the mail software to 'correct'
> > > this automatically?
> >
> > Well, it's trivial to configure rewriting of email headers.
> >
> > But we're talking about body text here, and the web archive of this
> > list. If you keep what you present to the world as an authentic
> > record of what people wrote, then there are moral and perhaps even
> > legal implications if you feel you're allowed to rewrite it - even in
> > what seems a mechanical and trivial way, the thing is that what you
> > are then presenting in your "archive" is in fact *not verbatim*.
>
> IIRC, Google does something similar for their archives of usenet (aka
> Google Groups) postings. Admittedly, munging email body content isn't
> trivial, but not impossible, either, made easier by the fact that any
> email address would invariably be part of single-line attribution.
> You're correct in saying it wouldn't be varbatim, but I wonder how
> important that really is.
Heh. Try reading a piece of LaTeX preamble code in comp.text.tex (which
makes heavy use of the @ sign) on Google groups... The cut-and-paste
approach produces mostly rubbish, as Dave so eloquently put it.
Igor
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