Charles Lindsey wrote:
But the real nasty only came to light well after RFC 2822 was published.
Consider the following two cases:
<"foo\bar"@baz.com>
<"foobar"@baz.com>
<foorbar(_at_)baz(_dot_)com>
Now read RFC 2822 VERY carefully. All those three are semantically the
same. If ever you have to ask the question "is this msg-id the same one as
that masg-id" you MUST answer Yes in the case of any pair out of those
three.
Assuming the r in the last is a typo, yes, but now we've strayed
from syntax to semantics, which is a different kettle of fish.
And how many backslashed characters did you find at all (redundant or
not)? And how many quoted strings for that matter.
I didn't count them. I suspect there were few if any. Nor did
I check for backslash-quoted > (which apparently would cause
trouble for some news software).