Re: Compatibility wit Netnews (was I-D ACTION:draft-resnick-2822upd-01.txt)
"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> "Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]> writes: >Let me recap what the problem is. Essentially, under RFC 2822 as it >stands, '\a' is semantically equivalent to 'a' and agents are at liberty >to change one into the other en route (of course, nobody ever writes '\a' >and agents en route don't do that, but the possibility is there and some >agents do check for those equivalances). Likewise, '"foobar"' is >semantically equivalent to 'foobar'. Additionally, Netnews cannot tolerate >SP or '>' (whether quoted or not) or any NO-WS-CTL. I should have added there that Netnews also expects to do all comparisons case-sensitively. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5