Re: Header Field Registrations

From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 17:19:10 CDT


In <407DE8B6.1070504@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:

>Charles Lindsey wrote:

>> As things stand, the header syntax defined within USEFOR always turns
>> out to be a subset of that defined in RFC 2822.

>Whether or not that is the case for situations where the ABNF and normative
>text are in conflict (e.g. whether Subject is structured) depends on whether
>one uses the ABNF or the normative text.

If the normative text conflicts with (or, rather augments) the ABNF, then
the normative text wins.

In any case, for all of those headers which occur in both Email and
Netnews, every such header permitted by the Usefor draft is also permitted
by RFC 2822.

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