Re: Header Field Registrations

From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 13 2004 - 04:48:41 CDT


In <Pine.LNX.4.53.0404121121440.10730@a.shell.peak.org> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:

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>Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net):

>>The RFCs whose drafts we are working on at this moment could similarly
>>define it so

>The RFC we are working on could define a lot of things, but its been
>through last call more than once already without any desire from anyone
>to do so, so I question why the sudden interest in making a new definition
>for an unstructured header.

On the last occasion I tried to conduct an Internal Last Call (must have
been two years ago by now), the "Re: " was in the syntax of the
Subject-header and its inclusion by followup agents was mandatory. I do
not recall that you objected to it on that occasion, and I somehow don't
think you imagine that you are bound by it now.

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