From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 10:26:19 CST
In <200302180756.IAA01610@message-id.pfm-mainz.de> rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de (Ralph Babel) writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> Bruce Lilly wrote:
>>
>>> Consider RFC 2822. It introduced parse-only rules
>>> for recognizing unquoted dot in a phrase, [...]
>>
>> And if that is the case, do we want to
>> introduce it into Usefor on the same terms?
>It's already in there (section 3.1):
>| Each news article conformant with this specification
>| MUST have exactly one of each of the following headers:
>| Date, From, Message-ID, Subject, Newsgroups, and Path.
>| The first 4 are specified in [RFC2822].
No, that is not in Usefor. Please read the sentence you are replying to.
And those words from the Kohn draft REQUIRE lots of other things. Like
breaking many currently working threading newsreaders.
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