Re: Special Characters

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 07:48:33 CDT


In <Pine.BSI.3.91.1000419154541.5140S-100000@spsystems.net> Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:

>Well, remember that (except perhaps for DRUMS/MESSFOR political reasons)
>there is no compulsion on us to support the full generality of something
>that's awkward to implement. News headers have *always* been only a
>restricted subset of mail headers, in some cases severely restricted.

Well I think it desirable that the two should be the same so far as is
possible. And having persuaded DRUMS to remove their worst excesses, I
think we should be able to live with what is left.

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