From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 08:43:16 CST
In <4054E538.3010903@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> That is RFC 2811, which describes Email.
>No, RFC 2811 is titled "Internet Relay Chat: Channel Management". Perhaps
>you meant 2821, which is SMTP.
Oops!
> 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.
From the Abstract to RFC 2822:
This standard specifies a syntax for text messages that are sent
between computer users, within the framework of "electronic mail"
messages.
(and repeated in Section 1.1 entitled "Scope").
Kindly point me to standards for fax, voice messaging, EDI and SIP which
adopt RFC 2822 without qualification.
As to news, the relationship with RFC 2822 will be whatever we say it is.
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