From: Simon Josefsson (simon+usenet-format@josefsson.org)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 20:31:15 CDT
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> If I'd ever actually seen a real-life mail message (not even a news
> message) that didn't have a space after the colon, I might have a
> different opinion, but I never have. This "feature" of the RFC 2822
> protocol is about as widely used as source routing in RFC 822 was.
For what its worth, Gnus used to only parse Header:SPC but a few
months ago there was a bug report when someone received To:foo@bar.com
or similar, so this has been fixed. This illustrates that these mail
message do exist, but also that they are rare since the same code has
been in use for many years and there has only been one complaint.