From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Sun Nov 02 1997 - 10:06:00 CST
rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) wrote on 21.10.97 in <m3sotuk707.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>:
> for both standards, and the mail syntax is needlessly complex and
> baroque. So in my opinion the mail syntax needs to be fixed.
The problem with this is, to quote RFC 1123,
RFC-822 is a long and dense document, defining a rich syntax.
Unfortunately, incomplete or defective implementations of RFC-822
are common. In fact, nearly all of the many formats of RFC-822
are actually used, so an implementation generally needs to
recognize and correctly interpret all of the RFC-822 syntax.
MfG Kai