Re: Who says 1154 is not recursive?

[Mark Crispin <MRC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My RFC-1154 implementation does not specifically support recursively nested
messages, but there is no particular reason why it can't.  I would just have
to make opening a message segment put the message into a new read window
instead of dumping it into a text file.

There are somewhat more complex implications for my support for structured
mail in IMAP2 (RFC-1176, not to be confused with "IMAP3" of RFC-1203), but I
plan on addressing those (as well as the 8-bit issue) after this WG comes to a
conclusion about what to do.

I don't particularly care for RFC-1154's line counts, but in weak defense of
it I should note that it seems to be somewhat less obnoxious to a human reader
than some of the explicitly machine-readable alternatives proposed.

I would like to warn especially against the 2^n nesting mechanisms proposed.
That gets out of hand quickly.  At most, it should be *n.

-- Mark --