In <a05100303b7c2c23c729e(_at_)[216(_dot_)43(_dot_)25(_dot_)67]> Pete Resnick
<presnick(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> writes:
On 9/10/01 at 1:17 PM -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote:
1) There does not appear to be a requirement for a space after the
colon in the header field...
That is correct. Though a space definitely makes it more readable and
lots of clients produce the space, it is not required at all, I've
seen messages without, and I've never seen anybody fail to parse a
header without a space.
Apparently some existing news software barfs if that space is missing,
which is why Usefor-05 disallows it.
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