Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <200508211941.j7LJfXQ15442@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Seth Breidbart <sethb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Bruce Lilly <blilly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> All of which is why we removed <comment>s from the Path quite some
>> time ago.
>>
>> "we" didn't remove them.  It was a one-person, non-consensus, unilateral
>> action based on flawed reasoning.

>OK, who put comments _into_ Path?

I was wrong. It is the Control header from which comments were removed
relatively recently. They were removed from Message-ID in 2002, but they
have been absent from Newsgroups, Path and Distribution since at least
article-03 in 2000, which is the earliest draft I have on file.

So it would seem they were never there. Nor were they in Son-of-1036, nor
in 1036 itself, nor has anyone ever seen one in the wild, nor does any
known relaying agent handle them.

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