Re: Dash-escaping clarification

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:27:57PM -0500, Michael Young wrote:

> - > ... A sentence saying something like "Any
> - > other line MAY be dash-escaped as well at the discretion of the
> - > sender" would be very helpful here.
> - 
> - Sounds good, but as David points out, this may break existing receivers.
> - See if yours can verify this.  (PGP6.5.3 silently accepts it.
> - GnuPG1.2.1 emits warnings on each line; it cannot verify this
> - signature, but if I remove the blank input line above, it can.)

The point is that future receivers will know that such a thing is
possible.  They still don't have to support it - it's a MAY.

It's hard to support something before it has been documented ;)

David