From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 12:21:10 CDT
Graham Drabble <graham.drabble@lineone.net> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
>> 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.
Good point. (And amusingly, I think that's one that our current draft
isn't addressing at all at the moment, although I'm not sure whether it
really should.)
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>