From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 08:48:02 CDT
In <200305230117.DAA01926@message-id.pfm-mainz.de> rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de (Ralph Babel) writes:
>Bruce is arguing in favor of a _common_ message format, and
>he is certainly not the only one. He has made it quite clear
>that he understands the current limitations as described by
>Russ, but that is not a valid reason _not_ to move mail and
>news closer to each other. The same applies to "Re: " and
>other warts. The issue is "migration" - not whether it's
>_currently_ feasible.
If there exists a feature (such as omitting the SP after the colon) that
causes trouble in some systems (news systems as it happens), but which is
never ever used (that I have seen) in either news or email, and which
provides no actual benefit if you do use it, then the logical way to
achieve a common message format is not to have it in either. Or, in RFC
2822 terms, move it to the obs syntax in the next RFC 2822 revision. Would
anyone notice or be inconvenienced by that?
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