Header Field Registrations

From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 12:52:35 CST


Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk):

> Whilst relaying agents MUST accept, and pass on unaltered, any non-
> variant header whose header-name is syntactically correct, and
> reading agents MUST enable them to be displayed, at least optionally,

How does a reading agent "enable" a header? Do you mean "be able to
display them"?

> However, software SHOULD NOT attempt to interpret headers not
> specifically intended to be meaningful in the Netnews environment.

A very nice condemnation of the "Re: " hack, I will note.

  




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