From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 04:33:40 CDT
In <1erq3xp.90nz7a1fauz7tM%planb@newsreaders.com> planb@newsreaders.com (J.B. Moreno) writes:
>Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
>> In news.software.readers, Andrew Gierth
>> <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>
>> > hmm. I think I need to take a few potshots at that too - the folding
>> > stuff is just bogus nonsense for headers like Path, Newsgroups or Xref
>> > which need to be reliably machine-parsed.
>>
>> I wish you luck; I and a few other vocal people managed to get rid of MIME
>> attributes in those headers (aie) and I settled for good enough.
>Even if it is going to be allowed, it should be a SHOULD not at this
>point because of incompatibilities with current software.
Folding of Newsgroups headers is indeed a SHOULD NOT in the present draft
(but also a MUST accept). Path and Xref are already foldable under RFC
1036.
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