From: Pete Resnick (presnick@qualcomm.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 13:25:48 CDT
On 4/29/03 at 4:06 PM -0400, Bruce Lilly wrote:
>Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Sounds like a chicken-and-egg situation. INN isn't actually
>breaking on receipt of a message with the SP after colon. What, if
>anything, actually *does* break? Let's not perpetuate a difference
>from 822/2822 unless there's a very good reason to do so.
Apologies for not piping up sooner about this one:
Bruce, this is nonsense. Rejection of messages is "breakage", in the
same way that if an SMTP server refused to relay a message of a
particular format, it would be breakage. I see no consensus at all to
remove this restriction. Let's move on.
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