From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 20 1999 - 10:18:13 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>> References. There was a little discussion, and I think we should now
>> reduce the number kept to first plus last 20, and to remove the
>> suggestion that implementations need to look at the body.
Agreed.
>> There remains the question of whether trimming the Referemces (when you
>> do a followup) should be a SHOULD or a MAY. Currently it says SHOULD,
>> but I would be happier with MAY.
SHOULD sounds fine to me.
>> More importantly, do you want me to say that "Subject: cmsg blah" is
>> for information only and MUST NOT be used to instigate control action
>> on its own.
Yes. Time for it to die. Our standard should disallow it as a way of
indicating a control message *and* disallow it in standard Subject lines;
then the next standard has some hope of being able to allow it in Subject
lines again.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>