Re: Document definitions

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 20:03:24 CDT


In <ceob3o$ml9$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com>, on 08/03/2004
   at 11:40 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> said:

>And if an RFC is accepted which uses some other delimiter then this
>will be in the way,

How?

>In addition, it would make future adoption *slower*, because
>existing software would be coded to treat it as a comment inducer,
>and would never see parameters.

Why would it matter if it saw parameters that it didn't know how to
act on?

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