Re: CFWS limits..

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 11 1997 - 05:15:38 CST


Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz> wrote:

>Could I have a list of places that we do *not* want CFWS ?

>The drums people will keep them in their standard but they are willing to
>exclude them from specific places where problems may occur...

1. Inside of the <...> in a message-id.

2. Inside of an address , or inside of <address> if the "<..>" are
present. Note that DRUMS currently allows

To: "Fred D. Bloggs" CFWS < CFWS fdbloggs CFWS @ CFWS domain.com CFWS > CFWS

No objection to the first and last CFWS in that.

3. Inside of a date-time, though it is actually recommended to include a
comment at the end with the a human-understandable timezone, as in

Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:05:02 -0500 (EST)

Thus, we suggest all the other *CFWS in date-time should become *WS.

Note that, for news, we also have to recognise some obsolete formats such
as Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:05:02 GMT (GMT) and also some ancient UNIX formats
that we discussed (does anybody have the details).

4. All other comments, except after addresses and date-times.

NOTE: These are in descending order of priority. The message-id one is a
MUST for us. I think we have pretty well conceded (4) by now.

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