From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 15:45:09 CST
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Bruce Lilly wrote:
> > ...So the MIME standards do
> > not currently apply to Netnews (but our draft will fix that).
>
> Incorrect; RFC 1036 specifically mentions that news articles use the
> text message format defined in RFC 822, and RFC 2047 explicitly revises
> the RFC 822 ABNF...
However, RFC 1036 refers specifically and explicitly to RFC 822, *not* to
"RFC 822 or any update thereof". RFC 2047, like other post-822 updates to
mail standards, does not apply to news unless we make it so.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net