From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Mon Jul 26 2004 - 20:48:06 CDT
Sebastian Brocks (mail@sebastian-brocks.de):
>How is doing what RFC 1036 explicitly allows a abuse of unstructured
>headers?
Are you of the opinion that everything any standard says, even if it
contradicts others, is perfectly acceptable?
When RFC1036 tries to shoehorn structure into an unstructured header, it
is wrong, just as much as when we try to do it for the next version.
The point remains, solving the problem as presented does not require
forcing structure into an unstructured header, it requires simply using
the structured header already defined for the purpose and a properly
designed agent.
And gosh, that sounds like it applies to "Re: " and References headers,
too, doesn't it?