ml>>> ... define "technically correct"

 PE>> Be able to achieve the fundamental requirement of delivering a
 PE>> message from A to B intact.

ml>>> ... by who's definition is "correct" the absolute one?

 PE>> Anyone who can prove that a user can enter some text, and it
 PE>> gets from A to B unmangled.

 ml> for our discussions on this mail system, i'll accept these
 ml> definitions for now >

BTW: does mangling also include "fixing by other utils" ???  ie:
those that alter all dashes seperation lines so that the first three are
something else?  what about those that alter the date format from what the
sending system put in the message to another format while tossing the
message to downlink systems?  ie:  opusseadog conversion

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