From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 23:05:20 CST
Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Bruce Lilly wrote:
>
>>RFC 2822's title is "Internet Message Format", not "Email standard".
>
>
> And as has been pointed out to you before, you read far too much into
> that title, especially since the first paragraph of 2822 says explicitly
> that it is for messages sent as electronic mail.
And as has been pointed out to you before, the sentence to which you
refer has been copied verbatim since RFC 733, which predates use of
the message format by other applications. The point remains that
RFC 2822 defines a message format, and that format is used by mail
(RFC 2821) as well as fax, EDI, voice messaging, and other applications.