From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 14:47:43 CDT
Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
> So far nobody's piped up and said "software package XYZ prints 'the end
> is nigh' and reformats the hard disk on encountering something other
> than a SP after the colon". I can only assume -- in the absence of some
> such report -- that it's time for the sun to set on that particular set
> of restrictions.
As I think I've mentioned a few times before, INN rejects all messages
that have headers without a space after the colon, and the upcoming NNTP
standard revision will likely also require the space because that's what
existing software expects and it makes the descriptions of various header
retrieval commands much more straightforward.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>