From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 02 2004 - 17:00:17 CDT
Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
> Agreed (mostly). The point of quoting RFC 724 was to give some
> historical perspective on the origins of the field. RFC 2822 has
> rendered phrases in the field obsolete. RFC 2822 also provides for
> optional comments, line folding, and whitespace (as did RFC 822) in
> addition to msg-ids.
Line folding and whitespace work with existing news clients.
Unfortunately, clients tend not to, and produce odd display artifacts.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>