From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 02 2004 - 17:04:33 CDT
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> 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.
Er, unfortunately *comments* tend not to. Sorry.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>