From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 12:50:17 CDT
On 4/28/03 3:47 PM, Russ Allbery at <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>
>> So far nobody's piped up and said "software package XYZ prints 'the end
>> is nigh' and reformats the hard disk on encountering something other
>> than a SP after the colon". I can only assume -- in the absence of some
>> such report -- that it's time for the sun to set on that particular set
>> of restrictions.
>
> As I think I've mentioned a few times before, INN rejects all messages
> that have headers without a space after the colon, and the upcoming NNTP
> standard revision will likely also require the space because that's what
> existing software expects and it makes the descriptions of various header
> retrieval commands much more straightforward.
I'm just about convinced that what Lilly would like is a document that says
"See RFC 2822. The End." Which makes arguing with him rather pointless.
If we aren't to be more permissive than mail, and we aren't to be more
restrictive than mail, what's left?
For the record -- given even *1* news program that assumes the space (let
alone one with the importance of INN), for whatever purpose, I see no reason
not to continue to be more restrictive in this matter.
-- J.B. Moreno