From: Graham Drabble (graham.drabble@lineone.net)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 06:07:31 CDT
On 22 Jun 2004 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote in
news:873c4nuxvi.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu:
> I've seen lots of plausible arguments that Subject is actually
> "quasi-structured" instead of unstructured. I've yet to see any
> plausible argument that Subject in Usenet is different from
> Subject in e-mail, *in practice*, in any way that anyone would
> actually notice or care about, other than adding a single note
> about the obsolete "cmsg" convention.
Multi part binaries make extensive use of a structure in the Subject
header. We may not think that it's a particuarly good way of doing it but
it happens and someone ignoring it would cause problems.
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