Re: Some syntactic bits

From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 16:57:07 CDT


On 5/8/03 3:47 PM, Charles Lindsey at <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote:

> I allow "From: Joe Q. Public <joe@public.example>" on a MUST accept
> SHOULD NOT generate yet basis, to bring us in line with RFC 2822 (Bruce
> raised this some while back, and the idea seemed to be agreed).

Current programs are likely to misparse that (I know MacSOUP does[1]), how
widespread was the agreement?

[1] Or at least something close to it: "From: Tom B. <nfn03862@naples.net>"

For an example of that, see: <MPG.1920f153c4c792989896f1@news.cis.dfn.de>.

-- 
J.B. Moreno



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