And as I said, I shan't argue for one side or the other.
On the topic of "should settings be sticky".
So if you are disagreeing with me, it must be regarding my statement "Conversions follow the normal rules of conversions. I cannot think why anyone would think otherwise" which I said in order to justify email autoconversions following the rules of manual conversions (whatever those rules turn out to be).
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Since you seem to have quoted me in a rather broken and confusing manner, I am not 100% sure what parts of my post you are commenting/disagreeing with/quibbling over/other.
So take that for whatever it is worth.