From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 03:41:40 CDT
In <200204181452.02662@sendmail.mutz.com> Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org> writes:
>I have not much against remaining at 4c, actually. Going to 4d would simply
>result in more backwards compatibility, which is esp. important with mail and
>news, since they're not (only) on-the-wire, but also storage formats.
>> Note that all that is expected of news agents is that they should
>> tolerate/ignore everything after a naked ';'. It would do no harm for a
>> mail agent to do the same thing, which I think means there is no problem
>> for a mail+news agent that chooses to do so.
>Of course. My concern is rather already deployed software. Allow parameters in
>these headers and someone will use them for some obscure purpose and break
>deployed agents.
Indeed, and that is why we have said "SHOULD NOT generate". This whole
proposal is only there to give us flexibility in future standards. We are
not likely actually to propose a specific application until we are
satisfied that the majority of deployed systems at that time will not be
broken.
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