Re: [ietf-822] utf8 messages

[Jan Kundrát <[e-mail]>]

On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 16:54:30 CEST, Ned Freed wrote:
>> Or are you saying it would be fine for us to have such a 
>> header, but not to
>> leak it?
>
> It's one thing to manifest such a marker in your IMAP store as 
> a header. People
> have been exposing various sorts of store metadata that way for 
> years, and it
> seems to have been Mostly Harmless.

I'm afraid that once these headers show up in GMail, these will become a 
de-facto standard.

I don't have a horse in this race -- but I have seen what happens when a 
major player does something non-standard and people assume that it must've 
been the correct thing.

With kind regards,
Jan

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