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

On Jan 18 2005, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> 
> 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").

Right, if it was me, I'd probably say "this message line" or "this
text line", both of which are purposely scoped so widely that they
don't evoke a single field. But I'd have to grep my archives for the
string "line" to be sure ;-)

Either way, I believe that Bruce's point about decades of consistent
prior use in RFCs trumps all personal preferences. 

-- 
Laird Breyer.