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Re: CRs in messages

2001-05-22 10:22:29
On 5/22/01 at 11:57 AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote:

>the sending MUA probably shouldn't be putting bare <CR>s in the
>message either.
>however, this is perfectly legal in RFC 822.

And perfectly illegal to send in RFC 2822. They must however be
interpreted correctly according to section 4.1, and that means not
interpreting bare CRs as line endings.

A good point I neglected to mention. I brought up MIME primarily to show that
this isn't a prohibition that started with the recent publication of RFC 2822.

                                Ned

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