Mark Crispin <mrc(_at_)CAC(_dot_)Washington(_dot_)EDU> writes:
Let's try to translate your comment into something useful. Is it your
contention that:
Some set of commands in NNTP use message-id as an argument.
The syntax for that command precludes the use of space in
that argument, and/or NNTP lacks the type of quoting mechanism
found in IMAP and SMTP.
If so, please provide the details. If confirmed, that is useful and can
be stated as a requirement.
Your statement above is correct.
If NNTP has a limitation such as suggested above, then that would add a
transport imposed requirement to a document that otherwise uses RFC 2822
and MIME as normative. That is something that can be respected.
Precisely.
That is different from duplicating all of RFC 2822 and MIME just to
insert transport imposed requirements.
Yes, I'm also not in favor of doing this.
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Russ Allbery (rra(_at_)stanford(_dot_)edu)
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