Quoting Luis Felipe Marzagao <lfbm.andamen...@gmail.com>:
I also think wrinting a msg and not seeing what will be the final
text is really confusing and nonintuitive, mainly for real
life/regular users, but since this is open source software, at least
you can alter the code. Imagine if it were proprietary/closed
software.
Several of you have raised this "argument". And it is completely bogus.
NO MUA THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN "GUARANTEES" THAT WHAT YOU "SEE" IN THE
COMPOSE WINDOW IS ACTUALLY WHAT IS SENT OUT. MUA's add all sorts of
things to outgoing messages that users have no control of. MUA's
should be able to change/fix formatting as necessary to fix user
errors. MUA's can convert HTML text to plain text, or vice versa, or
add different representations of the data (which IMP allows). An
admin can add a trailer to every message which cannot be altered by
the user and will never be seen by the user (which IMP allows).
The simple fact with signatures IS THAT THE **USER** IS THE ONE THAT
ADDED THE SIGNATURE DATA IN THE FIRST PLACE. This is not the case of
someone "altering" a message or "adding" data without the user's
consent. For a signature to be added to a message, the user
necessarily needed to create the data at one point. Nothing is being
"added" or "altered" to the message that the user has not already
tacitly approved.
This is a great example of a specious argument: one that might look
like it has merit on its face, but if you even take a few seconds to
analyze the details there is absolutely no basis to it.
michael
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