Re: Compatibility wit Netnews
Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.rfc822 |
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| Organization | The Eyrie |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Pete Resnick <[email protected]> writes: > I had a look at the USEFOR doc, and given how complicated msg-id syntax > still is, I can't say I'm terribly inclined to start adopting it. If > USEFOR had come to consensus to completely remove the no-fold-quote > construct, I'd be a little more inclined. Er, the only reason why we didn't do that is for RFC 2822 compatibility. I sense a deadlock. :) NNTP would certainly love to eliminate as many quoting concepts as possible out of message IDs, and in general any construct that permits the same message ID to be represented by multiple different octet strings. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>