PGP: sequencing messages

[Steve Lamb]

Wednesday, April 05, 2000, 10:50:35 AM, Trevor wrote:
> I was referring only to the apparently flawed method The Bat! appears
> to use and pointing out that letting clients set the message ID
> relies on the developer of the client "doing it right".

    Which is no different than about the 2-3000 other things client developers
need to do right.  Quoting?  HTML?  ;)

> Fine by me. But for the record, I don't think "bug" is the right word
> to use just because a program does something differently from the
> norm.

    If the norm is the correct behavior then, yes, it is a bug.  Just because
a keyboard types in all caps until you hit the shift key doesn't make it a
"Feature request" to conform to the keyboards that do the opposite.  That's a
bug.  ;)

> My definition of a "bug report" is: "this code is *intended* to do X
> but instead does Y."

> My definition of a "feature request" is: "this code does X but I
> *want* it to do Y."

    Right.  This code doesn't generate a MSGID when it should.  In not doing
so it is breaking several portions of RFC822 including not guarenteeing a
unique MSGID nor, apparently, assigning a new MSGID upon resend or extra
resends.

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