Re: Differences between RFC 2822 and Usefor

From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 23:06:06 CDT


Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:

> Have you looked?
> Bcc:
> is quite common; it not only doesn't have a space after the colon,
> it also doesn't have any content (after the space that it doesn't
> have) on the first line.

Empty headers are a whole different matter (and pose their own problems in
a news context, and would also require significant software work to
accept). Duplicated headers are yet another issue. Empty and duplicated
headers are more of a direct issue for mail to news gateways and actually
a more interesting problem.

I consider an empty header to be in a completely different category than a
header with content but no space.

>> This "feature" of the RFC 2822 protocol is about as widely used as
>> source routing in RFC 822 was.

> There's nothing specific to RFC 2822 about it.

I didn't say there was.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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