From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Sun Mar 14 2004 - 17:05:28 CST
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <4047D649.90805@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>>No, RFC 2822 is quite clear on that matter:
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>>"subject = "Subject:" unstructured CRLF
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>>comments = "Comments:" unstructured CRLF
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>>keywords = "Keywords:" phrase *("," phrase) CRLF
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>> These three fields are intended to have only human-readable content
>> with information about the message.
>>"
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> That is RFC 2811, which describes Email.
No, RFC 2811 is titled "Internet Relay Chat: Channel Management". Perhaps
you meant 2821, which is SMTP. But then you'd still be wrong, because
the quoted text is in fact from RFC 2822, section 3.6.5. RFC 2822 is the
"Internet Message Format" used not only by email, but by fax, voice
messaging, EDI, SIP, and news; it is the primary reference for message
format in the Usefor draft.
> We are defining a document to describe Netnews. Our present draft does not
> contain that wording.
It refers to that wording by referring to RFC 2822.
> In any case, whatever RFC 2822 might say, it is clear that the Subject
> header IS used by non-humans, even in Email.
So what? That doesn't make any content part of any protocol, nor does
it cause the syntax (unstructured) or official semantics to be altered.