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Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-klyne-msghdr-registry-02.txt

2002-01-31 05:13:34

In <200201301805(_dot_)g0UI51p09720(_at_)astro(_dot_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> 
Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:

p.s. I'd also prefer "header fields" to "headers".  The header is the
structure at the beginning of an email message (NNTP message, 
HTTP message, whatever), and it is composed of zero or more fields.

That is indeed the terminology defined in RFC 2822, but it is NOT the
terminology used in common parlance throughout Usenet and other places.

It is not the terminology used in RFC 1036 (though the actual terminology
there is a random mix of three different conventions :-( ). It is not the
terminology used in Son-of-1036, and it is not the terminology of the
present Usefor draft.

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