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On 9 Sep 2002, Dave Love wrote:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > This could be a useful feature.  These properties won't be necessary
> > for correctness, and it would be no disaster if they got lost,
> 
> It would be unfortunate, as it is clobbering data.  Especially, it's
> probably not visually obvious.
> 
> Text properties are currently fragile because they're often stripped
> with calls of buffer-substring-no-properties and friends.

Agreed.  Perhaps text properties aren't the right vehicle for solving 
this problem.