On Apr 14, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Steve Lamb wrote:
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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I'm your
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I'm using a different reader altogether and I sometimes see the
unsubscribe annotation and sometimes I don't.
The difference correlates perfectly with whether the message is
multipart mime(rfc1341), or not.--it does not appear whenever the
sender mails a multi-part message. For example you _WON'T_ see it
with Steve's messages as illustrated above; you _WILL_ see it with
this message (I hope).
Taking a brief look at the specs, but not enough to grok them:
I suspect that the problem is that the notice is tacked on _after_
the attachments---essentially turning the notice into an "epilog''
<i> without a content-type</i> rather than either:
(a) placing it within the first text part; or
(b) attaching it as a well-formed part.
Since it's an ill-formed part, it's properly ignored.
Bottom line: I suspect the problem lies with the mechanism used to
append the message.
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