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

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Charles Lindsey wrote:
...
> But if 2822-bis is prepared to go further than that, then it is fine with
> me. The only question is whether people ever (or ever need to) use
> <quoted-string>s in <msg-id>s. I looked in all the news articles and
> emails on my computer and found no example of it, but my sample is far too
> small. So has anyone else seen that in the wild?

In a scan of the messages I have lying around, I found only one message 
whose message-id contained a quote...but it matched the old obs-local-part 
syntax and not the no-fold-quote syntax!

Message-Id: <07Mar26.165721pst."57996"@xxx.yyy.zzz.com>

Declaring no-fold-quote message-ids to be obsolescent seems reasonable to 
me.  Note that all that would need to be done in the ABNF is remove 
no-fold-quote from the id-left definition, as obs-id-left already covers 
quoted-string.

(Removing no-fold-literal from the generate syntax is a non-starter, IMHO. 
Too many messages posted to this very list use them to even pretend that 
they aren't widely supported and used.)


Philip Guenther