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

Frank Ellermann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
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Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
 
>> 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?

Killing <no-fold-quote> is a nice idea, it simplifies the syntax
significantly.

And what about NO-WS-CTL in <no-fold-literal> ?  We can't also kill
<no-fold-literal>, how about limiting it to the literal syntax also
permitted in STD 66 ?  (Of course always in square brackets)
 
Frank
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