From: Andrew Gierth (andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 14:05:35 CDT
>>>>> "Kent" == Kent Landfield <kent@landfield.com> writes:
Kent> To all who consider the draft incompatible,
Kent> It might help if there was a specific list of what is
Kent> incompatible and why so that we can accurately decide what will
Kent> break.
In addition to those of the SHOULD/MUST items I posted that attempt to
outlaw existing practice, here is a list of some other incompatibilities:
1) folding and whitespace in the Path header is known not to work
correctly with existing servers, especially Diablo which will actually
drop articles containing a TAB character in the path
2) delimiters other than ! in the Path are known not to work correctly
with almost everything except INN
3) Folding and whitespace in Newsgroups: is known not to work
correctly with anything except the Highwind servers
4) Folding in the Date header, other than at the end, is known not
to work with Diablo (and probably most other transit servers except
INN, I haven't tested this)
5) existing sites have restrictions on the total length of known
headers, even when folded
6) Newsgroup names with components starting with _ or + are in use,
contrary to the draft
there are probably more, but I have some real work to do at this
point.
-- Andrew.