Re: Compatibility wit Netnews (was I-D ACTION:draft-resnick-2822upd-01.txt)

Pete Resnick writes:
> So, now I'm beginning to get uneasy about using SHOULD/RECOMMENDED in 
> here. If we want normative language like the above, we should really 
> just remove no-fold-quote (since quoted-string is already allowed in 
> the obs- syntax).

Makes sense to me. Particularly since you can look for a long time 
before you find no-fold-quote in real message-ids. Standards are 
supposed to drop unused features as they advance, right?

> How about simply:
>
>         Note: There are contexts outside of Internet mail (specifically
>         Netnews [ref]) where message identifiers containing NO-WS-CTLs,
>         quoted-pairs, and specials on the left-hand side of the "@"
>         cause trouble for some implementations. Since messages
>         sometimes do traverse contexts, avoiding these on the left-hand
>         side of the "@" may be safest for implementations.

Or that.

But intuitively I'm more fond of aligning 2822 non-obs syntax with the 
syntax most generators use.

Arnt