On 2019-11-12 12:19:01, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Tue 2019-11-12 10:48:54 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: >> They need User-Agent:, I want Archive-At:, they will want >> X-Mailer... when is it going to stop? > > It's going to stop when users are satisfied. :) I highly doubt that we > will reach all possible headers. I wouldn't be surprised, actually. :p >> I would rather have configurability here than and endless stream of >> patches to grow a possibly boundless list... > > Configurability is at least as expensive to maintain as a (not actually > endless) short stream of patches, but i understand different people have > different tradeoffs they're willing to make. > > Can you suggest which kind of configurability you would prefer: complete > override, or differential modification? And if so, why do you prefer it > over the other choice? or should there be both? I have no idea, to be honest. But it's something I banged my head a few times against in notmuch and I would hate to have to recompile the entire thing to fix this on a local copy. a. -- The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams (1952-2001) _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch