Re: Compatibility wit Netnews (was I-D ACTION:draft-resnick-2822upd-01.txt)
"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> Philip Guenther <[email protected]> writes: >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.) Indeed. The <no-fold-literal> is still needed, but its current syntax is far too liberal compared with its envisaged use for conveying IP addresses. So some trimming of that syntax could be considered. Removing <quoted-pair> from it would remove most of the problem, and defning a restricted version of <dtext> without NO-WS-CTL would do the rest (it might even be a Good Idea to remove NO-WS-CTL from all <dtext>s). -- 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