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

2002-01-31 08:06:45

At 10:28 AM 1/31/2002 +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
That is indeed the terminology defined in RFC 2822, but it is NOT the
terminology used in common parlance throughout Usenet and other places.

other places includes common conversation around the net. an individual "slot" is typically called a 'header'. The set of them is typically called 'headers'.

it would be very nice to have a better distinction than that one character, but we are not likely to change standard language at this juncture.

d/


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