Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 24-Jan-92 Re: RFC-HDR care and
feeding Keith Moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu (618)
It may
be the case that the document is easy to understand and is
sufficiently precise that implementations based on the spec
are likely
to work together. But so far I've only heard
from one person who has tried
to implement it, and that
person did find "bugs" in the spec.
I believe I'm the person
Keith's referring to. My metamail software, to be announced later today on
the net, includes a
partial implementation of RFC-HDRS. The
reason for the "partial" is simply the unsuitability of the metamail
architecture -- which patches existing ASCII-only mail readers -- for
displaying headers in alternate character sets. But it does find & decode all
the variables, and will do "the right thing" for any header that's in the same
character set that's expected by the terminal you're using.
The only
bugs I recall finding were pretty small, and Keith fixed them quite quickly.
So my take on it is that RFC-HDRS is pretty solid... -- Nathaniel