Re: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC5322 (3400)

Tony Finch <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:27:06 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ned Freed <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sorry, that's incorrect. The statements RFC 3030 makes are in the context of
> converting to and from local storage formats. The intention is clearly to say
> that line separators/terminator/delimiters/whatever have to be represented by a
> canonical CRLF sequence.

The problem is that "separators/terminator/delimiters/whatever" is not
sufficiently precise when we are concerned about the last line in the
file. If CRLFs are separators then the terminal one is optional; if they
are terminators then it is not.

Tony.
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