From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 13:16:42 CST
In <87d6liu7ie.fsf_-_@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>The question here is whether in fact it would be preferable to
>standardise the .POSTED and .MISMATCH tags instead. I have some real
>concerns about the potential disruption of introducing path delimiters
>other than '!'.
They are all permitted by RFC 1036. Rather surprisingly, when we tried it
out, we found that actual relaying agents implemented RFC 1036 rather
well. John Moreno, Clive Feather and myself tried sending all sorts of
examples back and forth between each other and various test groups, and we
did not find a single eample that failed. We found various strange
attempts at folding and unfolding, but those would not cause any actual
harm.
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