Re: Experiment #2 with multiple Reference headers (was References with multipl

In <20050117235827.GA27714@ender> Laird Breyer <[email protected]> writes:

>On Jan 18 2005, Charles Lindsey wrote:

>> I think we need the term "header line" when speaking of the individual
>> lines of a header field that has been folded.
>> 

>A "header line" as you propose is not a semantic unit, since folding
>white space can break the information at all sorts of places, and as
>the mail winds its way to its destination, folded lines can be
>rearranged several times in semantically equivalent ways.

Yes, but what term do you use when you want to say "This *mumble* is
longer than 998 characters", or "No *mumble* is allowed to consist of
whitespace only"? I will grant you that perhaps "header line" is not the
right term, because it is frequently used as a synonym for "header field"
(aka, in common parlance, "header").

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