From: Ralph Babel (rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 06:52:44 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> Bruce Lilly wrote:
>
>> How much existing news or mail software can deal with
>>
>> Date: 13 Sep 2002 12:34:56 -0700; foo=bar
>> Message-ID: <xyz123@example.domain.invalid>;fribble=blurfl
>> Keywords: compatibility, interoperability; reality=NOT
>>
>> etc.?
>
> I dunno. They all come within the scope of that SHOULD
> NOT. You have made proposals for change in those areas.
> I am waiting to see hands raised in your support.
> I haven't seen any yet.
The following URLs may provide some insight:
http://landfield.com/usefor/2002/Sep/0195.html
http://landfield.com/usefor/2002/Sep/0203.html
http://landfield.com/usefor/2002/Sep/0209.html
http://landfield.com/usefor/2002/Sep/0210.html
http://landfield.com/usefor/2002/Sep/0214.html
http://landfield.com/usefor/2002/Sep/0237.html
> For a start, they will all get transported correctly
> (because RFC 821 does not look at the headers inside a
> message, except for CTE).
He also asked about _news_ software
- which you conveniently ignored.
>> 2. RFC 1036 which explicitly uses the same "text message"
>> format for news (and which the draft repeats)
>
> But that of itself does not cause MIME to become a part of
> Netnews.
So how did the four-digit year from section 5.2.14 of RFC
1123 (which updated RFC 822) become part of the netnews
article format? It didn't? Reality check, please! It
didn't until 1036bis? Another reality check, please!