From: Thorfinn (thorfinn@tertius.net.au)
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 22:37:53 CDT
On Tue 22 Jun 2004 at 11:13:10PM -0400, in <40D8F546.5020100@erols.com>,
> Frank Ellermann wrote:
> > So far all attempts to ignore the existing simple structure
> > of Subject: headers in news [...]
> Sorry, there is no structure. That ship sailed more than twenty
> years ago when RFC 850 adopted RFC 822 Internet Text Message format
> and its Subject field (in preference to "Title" which had earlier
> been used in news) -- Subject had already been in use for a decade
> at that time, and was clearly defined as unstructured.
This is one of those issues that just sits here chewing up mailing list
bandwidth and going around and around in circles.
Can I request that the Chair make some sort of official declaration on
this topic? Otherwise we keep going around in circles, to absolutely no
point.
The fundamental question that seems to be unanswered is, "can we specify,
in this standard, the content of the Subject: header"?
As I see it, that's the real point of the argument. Those that want to
say "it's unstructured" say "no, no content specification", those that
want to do otherwise say, "yes, look it's got some sort of structure,
even if it's not a terribly proper one".
Chair?
Thanks,
Thorf
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