From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 13:34:56 CST
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, John Stanley wrote:
> > 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"?
Better phrasing might be "MUST at least provide the option of displaying
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.
Only if you ignore that "in the Netnews environment" part. If "Re: " is
defined to be meaningful in news, there's no conflict.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net