Re: Differences between RFC 2822 and Usefor

From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 23:43:52 CDT


Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <3EC5271B.7070809@Sonietta.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:

> But it has been explained to you by others on this list that your counter
> example was so contrived as to be irrelevant to our discussions.

It's not at all contrived -- it illustrates a very real issue, using a
registered charset and registered language tag.

> People
> are just not going to invent charsets or languages of that length.

WTF are you yammering about? The charsets and language tags are already
"invented" and registered. Go look at http://www.iana.org/numbers.html

> And if
> the problem you have raised is a serious one, as you maintain, then please
> show me how to cope with a From line containing the following (strict RFC
> 2822, please)?
>
> =?Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese_with_Chinese_extensions*cel-gaulish?q?a?=

There's no such charset. Not much point in reading beyond that -- Charles,
you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, and you obviously haven't
bothered to consult the relevant publicly available registration information.
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