On 11/14/02 at 12:54 PM -0800, Dan Kohn wrote:
and suggest that a new paragraph should be added to the end of RFC
2822, Section 2.2.3:
Mail User Agents SHOULD unfold headers that are displayed to the
end-user (such as Subject, To, and Cc), since line breaks in headers
do not have semantic content (unlike in message bodies, where they
often denote paragraph or list breaks).
I cannot express how strongly I feel that this does not belong in RFC
2822. I would *consider* putting in a "Note:" which says that often
it is nice for user agents to unfold Subjects for presentation to the
user, but there is no way that this comes remotely close to an RFC
2119 "SHOULD". It is certainly not normative.
If someone wants to write an informational RFC on "What MUAs ought to
do", more power to you. But nothing like this belongs in 2822.
pr
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