Re: Differences between RFC 2822 and Usefor

From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 08:07:33 CDT


In <yl3cirq176.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

>Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:

>>> Bcc:

>> Within Netnews, that header is already forbidden (though liberal agents
>> will do the best they can with it).

>s/Netnews/the current USEFOR draft/.

or s/Netnews/Son-of-1036/

>> Note also that, in both Netnews and Email, there is no semantic
>> difference between an empty header and omitting that header entirely.

>Er, that doesn't follow. Netnews doesn't allow an empty header at all,
>and therefore says nothing about its semantics.

Actually, our draft does say that (4.2.6). Again, it came straight out of
Son-of-1036.

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