Re: Another issue: quoting

"D. J. Bernstein" <[email protected]> 14 Feb 2003 03:31:40 -0000

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Roy Badami writes:
> One of the problems with the 822 specification is that localparts
> aren't just a sequence of characters, with quoting being just a
> transport encoding.

False. RFC 822, section 3.4.4, specifies beyond a shadow of a doubt that
quoting _is_ just a transport encoding. Read it!

Disclaimers: 1. I agree that there are many serious problems in RFC 822.
2. I agree that what you falsely accuse RFC 822 of doing would have been 
another problem---if it were true. 3. None of this is meant as a comment
on what RFC 2822 says. 4. None of this is meant as a comment on what
software actually does.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago