Re: I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-utf8headers-00.txt

John Cowan <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:02:44 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imaa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nathaniel Borenstein scripsit:

> I would worry a bit that there may still be mailers out there that 
> don't always convey all instances of a header field that appears more 
> than once -- e.g. if they convert into, say, a database representation 
> and can only have one value indexed to the field name "8", there might 
> be information lost when that gets converted back into RFC [2]822 
> format.  -- Nathaniel

Such mailers are obviously broken, and can't represent the "Received:"
header as commonly used -- not to mention that the RFC allows most
headers to be repeated.

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