Re: [Pan-users] X-Pan-Internal headers

[Charles Kerr]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 07:32:41PM +0000, Toby A Inkster wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:07:08AM -0800, Charles Kerr wrote:
> | On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:47:43AM +0100, Gollum wrote:
> | > When posting with Pan, it adds one or two special headers:
> | >   X-Pan-Internal-Attribution (when replying)
> | 
> | [1] When counting the number of new lines in a message to give a
> | "this is mostly quoted text" or "this is *all* quoted text!" warning,
> | Pan strips the attribution out so that it's not counted as new content.
> 
> Why not simply count the attribution as "new text" -- it is only likely to 
> be one line anyway.

Because mostly quoted text is a warning, but only quoted text is an error,
so Pan has to be able to distinguish between the two.  Better solutions
would be welcomed. :)