From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Mar 13 2004 - 07:02:35 CST
In <4047D649.90805@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> In <4046A2EC.4030401@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>>>In this particular case, there is no syntax issue, and no protocol
>>>issue (because Subject field content is exclusively for human
>>>consumption).
>>
>>
>> And that is where you are entirely wrong.
>No, RFC 2822 is quite clear on that matter:
>"subject = "Subject:" unstructured CRLF
>comments = "Comments:" unstructured CRLF
>keywords = "Keywords:" phrase *("," phrase) CRLF
> These three fields are intended to have only human-readable content
> with information about the message.
>"
That is RFC 2811, which describes Email.
We are defining a document to describe Netnews. Our present draft does not
contain that wording.
In any case, whatever RFC 2822 might say, it is clear that the Subject
header IS used by non-humans, even in Email. Repeating mantras from a
standard will not make it stop.
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