From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Wed Jun 30 2004 - 08:03:36 CDT
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I am concerned about this for cmsg. If you generate Subject headers
> beginning with cmsg, you will encouter real interoperability problems on
> Usenet right now, and for years into the future. That seems more serious
> than the scope of USEAGE.
I have to concur on this. Distasteful though it is, cmsg hasn't entirely
gone away, and it's a genuine interoperability problem. We don't want to
sanction its continuing use -- it *is* a botch -- but forbidding Subject
content to begin with "cmsg " is desirable.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net